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Title: Smokechasing by Stephen J. Pyne ISBN: 0-8165-2285-5 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: useful to those who think AND do
Comment: This is a good collection of essays on the world of wildland fire, from history to philosophy to grubbing in the dirt. It is not for those who are not already part of wildland fire; you have to DO it to get it, I guess. If you get it, the essays on prescribed fire are thoughtful criticisms of the status quo, and are strong calls for those of us who use prescribed fire to stop taking it for granted before we lose it. Those essays are highly recommended for all thinking firefighters and fire managers.
Rating: 1
Summary: Chasing not smoke but meaning
Comment: This may be the most confusing book I've ever read. It isn't that
there isn't useful information in it, it's just it's scattered, repetitious, and intermixed with large blocks of what I assume Mr. Pyne thinks is relevant philosophy. You'll find yourself skipping over a great many paragraphs of this last.
The other major failing it that, while the author devotes a great deal of (scattered) space to his criticisms of existing wildfire control practices, he never makes clear what methodology he is in favor of.
Save your time and money and skip this one. I wish I had.
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Title: Fire and Ashes: On the Front Lines of American Wildfire by John N. Maclean ISBN: 0805072128 Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: A Season of Fire: Four Months on the Firelines in the American West by Doug Gantenbein ISBN: 1585421766 Publisher: J.P. Tarcher/Penquin Pub. Date: 10 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Wildfire: A Reader by Alianor True, Stephen J. Pyne ISBN: 1559639075 Publisher: Island Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Fire: A Brief History (Cycle of Fire Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books) by Stephen J. Pyne ISBN: 029598144X Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Fire in Their Eyes: Wildfires and the People Who Fight Them by Karen Magnuson Beil, Karen Magnuson Beil ISBN: 0152010424 Publisher: Harcourt Paperbacks Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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