Fire in America
Subtitle: a cultural history of wildland and rural fire
By: Stephen J. Pyne ; with a foreword by William Cronon ; and a new preface by the author.
Edition: Pbk. ed.
Series: Cycle of fire; Weyerhaeuser environmental books; Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 654
Subjects: Wildfires -- United States -- History.; Fires -- United States -- History.
Description: From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [618]-626) and index.
Originally published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1982.