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Vestal Fire - An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (Paperback)
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Vestal Fire - An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (Paperback)
Series: Weyerhaueser Cycle of Fire
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Stephen Pyne has been described as having a consciousness "composed
of equal parts historian, ecologist, philosopher, critic, poet, and
sociologist." At this time in history when many people are trying
to understand their true relationship with the natural environment,
this book offers a remarkable contribution--breathtaking in the
scope of its research and exhilarating to read. Pyne takes the
reader on a journey through time, exploring the terrain of Europe
and the uses and abuses of its lands as well as, through migration
and conquest, many parts of the rest of the world. Whether he is
discussing the Mediterranean region, Russia, Scandinavia, the
British Isles, central Europe, or colonized islands; whether he is
considering the impact of agriculture, forestry, or Enlightenment
thinking, the author brings an unmatched insight to his subject.
Vestal Fire takes its title from Vesta, Roman goddess of the hearth
and keeper of the sacred fire on Mount Olympus. But the book's
title also suggests the strengths and limitations of Europe's
peculiar conception of fire, and through fire, of its relationship
to nature. Between the untamed fire of the wilderness and the
tended fire of the hearth lies a never-ending dialectic in which
human beings struggle to control natural forces and processes that
in fact can sometimes be directed but never wholly dominated or
contained.
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