Burning bush : a fire history of Australia
Aboriginal Australians Fire ecology Natural history Nature Shifting cultivation sähkökirjat
University of Washington Press
1998
Pbk. edition.
EISBN 9780295998831
Foreword by William Cronon.
Preface to the 1998 paperback edition.
Preface to the original edition: Firestick history.
Map of Australia.
Map of Australia's vegetation.
Prologue: Dust to dust.
Book I. The Eucalypt.
1. The universal Australian.
2. Unimaginable freaks of fire: Profile of a pyrophyte.
3. Red centre: Fire regimes of old Australia.
4. Land of contrarities.
Book II. The Aborigine.
5. Flaming front.
6. Firestick farmer: Profile of a pyrophile.
7. Fires of the dreaming.
8. Smokes by day, fires by night: Fire regimes of Aboriginal Australia.
9. This wonderful depository of fire.
Book III. The European.
10. Entwining fire.
11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile.
12. Red steers and green pick.
13. Beyond the black stump.
14. Fire conservancy.
15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia.
16. When the Billy boiled.
Book IV. The new Australian.
17. The two fires.
18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy.
19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia.
20. Dieback.
Epilogue: Ashes to ashes.
Preface to the 1998 paperback edition.
Preface to the original edition: Firestick history.
Map of Australia.
Map of Australia's vegetation.
Prologue: Dust to dust.
Book I. The Eucalypt.
1. The universal Australian.
2. Unimaginable freaks of fire: Profile of a pyrophyte.
3. Red centre: Fire regimes of old Australia.
4. Land of contrarities.
Book II. The Aborigine.
5. Flaming front.
6. Firestick farmer: Profile of a pyrophile.
7. Fires of the dreaming.
8. Smokes by day, fires by night: Fire regimes of Aboriginal Australia.
9. This wonderful depository of fire.
Book III. The European.
10. Entwining fire.
11. Reconnaissance by fire: Education of a pyrophile.
12. Red steers and green pick.
13. Beyond the black stump.
14. Fire conservancy.
15. Burning off: Fire provinces of European Australia.
16. When the Billy boiled.
Book IV. The new Australian.
17. The two fires.
18. Antipodean fire: The Australian strategy.
19. Wild bush, urban bush: Fire regimes of new Australia.
20. Dieback.
Epilogue: Ashes to ashes.
