Books
Stephen J. Pyne



 

Burning Bush
A Fire History of Australia
 
 
 

University of Washington Press, 1998
 
 

Other editions: Henry Holt, 1991 and 1992 [pb]; Allen & Unwin, 1992
Named by New York Times Book Review to Notable Books of 1991
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Table of Contents

Prologue: Dust to Dust

Book I: The Eucalypt

    1.  The Universal Australian
    2.  Unimaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte
    3.  Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia
    4.  Land of Contrarities

Book II: The Aborigine

    5.  Flaming Front
    6.  Firestick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile
    7.  Fires of the Dreaming
    8.  Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia
    9.  This Wonderful Depository of Fire

Book III: The European

    10.  Entwining Fire
    11.  Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile
    12.  Red Steers and Green Pick
    13.  Beyond the Black Stump
    14.  Fire Conservancy
    15.  Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia
    16.  When the Billy Boiled

Book IV: The New Australian

    17.  The Two Fires
    18.  Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy
    19.  Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes of New Australia
    20.  Dieback

Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes

Notes

Bibliographic Essay