Books
Stephen J. Pyne



 
 
 

World Fire
The Culture of Fire on Earth
 
 

University of Washington Press, 1997
 
 

Other editions: Henry Holt, 1995; Hosei University Press, 2002 [translated into Japanese by Akira Ohira]
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



Table of Contents

Smoke Report
    The New World Order on Fire

Size-Up
    Firestick History; or, How to Set the World on Fire

Hotspotting
    Fire Flume (Australia)
    Veld Fire (South Africa)
    Queimada Para Limpeza (Brazil)
    Svedjebruk (Sweden)
    Greek Fire (Greece)
    La Nueva Reconquista (Iberia)
    Red Skies of Irkutsk (Russia)
    Nataraja (India)
    White Darkness (Antarctica)

Control
    American Fire
        Initial Attack: The U.S. Forest Service Fights Fire
        Coldtrailing

    Wilderness Fire
        Vestal Fires and Virgin Lands
        The Summer We Let Wild Fire Loose

    Intermix Fire
        The Fire This Time
        Nouvelle Southwest

Mop-up
    Consumed by Either Fire or Fire

After the Last Smoke
    Flame and Fortune

Notes and Additional Reading