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ОглавлениеCYCLE OF FIRE
STEPHEN J. PYNE
“Cycle of Fire” is a suite of books that collectively narrate the story
of how fire and humanity have interacted to shape the Earth.
“Cycle” is an apt description of how fire functions in the natural world.
Yet “cycle” also bears a mythic connotation: a set of sagas
that tell the life of a culture hero. Here that role belongs to fire.
Ranging across all continents and over thousands of years,
the Cycle shows Earth to be a fire planet in which
carbon-based terrestrial life and an oxygen-rich atmosphere
have combined to make combustion both elementary and inevitable.
Equally, the Cycle reveals humans as fire creatures, alternately
dependent upon and threatened by their monopoly over combustion.
Fire’s possession began humanity’s great dialogue with the Earth.
“Cycle of Fire” tells, for the first time, that epic story.
World Fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth
Vestal Fire: An Environmental History, Told through Fire,of Europe and Europe’s Encounter with the World
Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia
The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica
“Cycle of Fire” is part of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books,
published by the University of Washington Press
under the general editorship of William Cronon.
A complete list of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
appears at the end of this volume.
