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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An excellent grounding in how fire functions, how we think about it and why that matters. In Pyne’s hands, fire becomes more than simply a natural phenomenon." * Los Angeles Times *
"Stephen J. Pyne takes a measured, historical, and ecological approach to fire. . . . [A] brief but highly impactful book." * Science *
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The Pyrocene is his fullest elucidation yet of how humanity has entered a new age of fire, one that redefines the human-altered era of the Anthropocene. And Pyne . . . is certainly the best writer to make this argument." * Nature *
"The Pyrocene may be just the type of analysis that we need to reformulate our understanding of fire and to prepare for the longue duree of a fire age."
* Natural Resources and Environment *
"A tremendous read, an incisive account of the history and science of fire alongside the evolution of hominids." * Organic Gardener *
"Pyne’s book is [a] wonderful and worthy read." * Metascience *
"A sweeping, deep biological and geological history of the Earth and how its human inhabitants have for the first time shaped its current state and future." * Utah Historical Quarterly *
"Pyne’s book is another wonderful and worthy read. It is a culmination of his work and thinking about fire spanning over forty years."
* Springer Nature *
Table of ContentsPrologue: Between Three Fires
1 Fire Planet: Fire Slow, Fire Fast, Fire Deep
2 The Pleistocene
3 Fire Creature: Living Landscapes
4 Fire Creature: Lithic Landscapes
5 The Pyrocene
Epilogue: Sixth Sun
Author's Note
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
