Title Burning bush : a fire history of Australia / Stephen J. Pyne

Edition [First edition] Published New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1991] [©1991]

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W'PONDS	304.20994 Pyn/Bba		AVAILABLE

Description xiv, 520 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm Contents Includes index Summary Narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and how the aborigines used it to remake their environment Analysis Aboriginal Australians Agriculture Fire ecology Australia Natural history Australia Nature Effect of human beings on Australia Shifting cultivation Australia Aboriginal Australians Agriculture Aborigines Bushfires Ecology Fire ecology Australia Forests History Natural history Australia Nature Effect of human beings on Australia Shifting cultivation Australia Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-497) and index Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture. Fire ecology -- Australia. Fire ecology -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Fire ecology -- Australia -- Queensland. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- Northern Territory. Natural history -- Australia. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- Queensland. Nature -- Effect of human beings on. Shifting cultivation -- Australia. Shifting cultivation. Wildfires -- Australia -- History LC no. 90025116 ISBN 0805014721 1863731946 (paperback)

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