With fresh insight into issues such as the energy crisis and global warming, this book should be of value to anyone interested in the environment from the standpoint of anthropology, geography, forestry, science and technology, history...

The Pyrocene von Pyne, Stephen J.

Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of...

In The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica America s foremost expert on wildfire turns to the land without fire, a continent reduced to a single mineral -- ice. von Pyne, Stephen J.