Books
Stephen J. Pyne


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Smokechasing
 
 
 

University of Arizona Press, 2003
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Table of Contents

Why Smokechasing?  An Author's Note

Standard Orders
    The Element That Isn't
    Buy This Book, Save the Planet

Bearings, Corrected and Otherwise
    Hominid Hearth
    Fire's Lucky Country
    Old Fire, New Fire [Mexico]
    Place of Power
    Strange Fire: The European Encounter with Fire
    A Land Between [Ghana]
    Ecological Imperialism, and Its Retreat [New Zealand]

Extended Attack
    The Source
    America's War on Fire
    The Two Cultures of Fire
    Waterdogs
    A Dumb Problem to Have
    When the Mountains Roared, Again

Burning Off
    Burning Deserts
    A Story to Tell
    Compassing About with Sparks
    An Incident at Praxis
    Doc Smith's History Lesson

Back at the Cache
    Smokechasing: The Search for a Usable Place
    Almost Lost
    An Exchange for All Things?
    Proscribed Burning 2
    Firebug
    Fire's New New Thing

Paperwork
    The Literature of Forest Fires, If There is Such a Literature
    A Privileged Phenomenon Which Can Explain Anything
    The Old Man and the Fire
    Green Skies of Montana

Debriefing
    Why I Do It