World Fire

<p>Back in Print<i>World Fire</i> is the story of how fire and humans have coevolved. The two are inseparable and together they have repeatedly remade the planet.“Pyne considers the evolution of fire in such diverse regions as Australia Africa Brazil Sweden Greece Iberia Russia and India and then ponders Antarctica the land without fire. As he examines changing techniques for and attitudes toward fire control Pyne challenges our concepts of nature and wilderness and explains why the study and management of fire have tremendous environmental cultural and political implications.”—Booklist“A sweeping historical treatise that examines our world’s love/hate relationship with conflagration. His engrossing ideas leave bright embers in the memory.”—Outside</p>