Stephen J. Pyne: Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia

Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia


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Pyne traces the impact of fire in Australia, from its influence on vegetation to its use by Aborigines and European settlers.Mr. Pyne, showing what a historian deeply schooled in environmental science can contribute to our awareness of nature and culture, has produced a provocative work that is a major contribution to the literature of environmental studies.New York Times Book Review

A "School Library Journal" Best Book Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was born in Edinburgh, the son of a prosperous civil engineer. Although he began his career as an essayist and travel writer, the success of Treasure Island (1883) and Kidnapped (1886) established his reputation as a writer of tales of action and adventure. Stevenson's Calvinist upbringing lent him a preoccupation with Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia download PDF predestination and a fascination with the presence of evil, themes he explored in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and The Master of Ballantrae (1893). If you enjoyed Treasure Island, you might like Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, also available in Penguin Classics. The year is 1952, and E. F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - after twenty years of roaming to find the three sons he abandoned are grown and angry: Warren is a womanizing alcoholic, Boyd is obsessed with hunting down his wife's lover, and Brady puts hexes on his enemies from his mother's porch. Only Fleming, the old man's grandson, can see beyond all the hatred and strife and through the love of Raven Lee, a beauty from another town, he finds the courage to reject his family's curse.


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Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Number of Pages: 548 pages
Published Date: 01 Aug 1998
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Country: Washington, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780295976778
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