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Vestal Fire

An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, Of Europe And Europe'S Encounter With The World

by Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Washington Press, March of 2000 ‧
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Between the untamed fire of the wilderness and the tended fire of the hearth lies a never-ending dialectic in which human beings struggle to control natural forces and processes that in fact can sometimes be directed but never wholly dominated or contained.

Vestal Fire

An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, Of Europe And Europe'S Encounter With The World

by Stephen J. Pyne

Property Description
ISBN: 9780295979489
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date: March of 2000
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Softcover
Pages: 672
Format: Book
Collection: Weyerhaueser Cycle Of Fire
Categories: Books in English > Engineering > General Engineering
Books in English > Social Sciences and Humanities > Geography
EAN: 9780295979489

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Stephen J. Pyne

Stephen J. Pyne, professor emérito da Universidade do Arizona, é um historiador ambiental com mais de trinta livros publicados, grande parte deles dedicados à investigação sobre a história do fogo. Em 1967, com 18 anos, iniciou a atividade de bombeiro no Grand Canyon, especializando-se na deteção precoce de fogos florestais no grande parque nacional norte-americano. Essa atividade conduziu-o ao estudo do fogo e fez dele uma das maiores autoridades mundiais na matéria.

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