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"In the summer of 1910, wildfires scorched millions of acres in the West, darkened skies in New England, and deposited soot on the ice of Greenland. The flames
Between Two Fires
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Pages: 550
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-15 - Publisher: University of Arizona Press

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From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire m
Year of the Fires
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Stephen J. Pyne
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"1910 was America's millennial year of fire. That summer, American nature and American society collided with tectonic force as western wildfires scorched millio
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The Big Burn
Language: en
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National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time.