Burning Bush

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne's Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.

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 ONE: THE EUCALYPT

The Universal Australian

Unemaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte

Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia

Land of Contraries

BOOK TWO: THE ABORIGINE

Flaming Front

Fierstick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile

Fires of the Dreaming

Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia

This Wonderful Depository of Fire

BOOK THREE: THE EUROPEAN

Entwining Fire

Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile

Red Steer and Green Pick

Beyond the Black Stump

Fire Conservancy

Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia

When the Billy Boiled

BOOK FOUR: THE NEW AUSTRALIAN

The Two Fires

Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy

Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes in New Australia

Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index