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Author Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-

Title Burning bush : a fire history of Australia / Stephen J. Pyne
Published Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 1992

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  304.20994 Pyn/Bba  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 520 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Summary Aboriginal fire practices; firemaking tools; fire regimes; fire hunting; signal fires; firestick farming; firemaking; myth of Rainbow Serpent, fire and origin of man; Gunei people of Arnhemland and their use of fire; Tasmanian fire practices
Notes First published; U.S.A.; Holt, 1991; Bibliography; p. 423-497; Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 493-497
Notes Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture.
Fire ecology -- Australia.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia.
Natural history -- Australia.
Shifting cultivation -- Australia.
ISBN 1863731946