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Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping l...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Andrew C. Scott
Formato: Printed Book
Publicado em: Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2018
Assuntos:
Sumário:
  • Introducing fire
  • Getting dirty: what charcoal can tell us
  • Kindling
  • The rise, fall, and rise of fire
  • Fire, flowers, and dinosaurs
  • Fire and the coming of the modern world
  • Prometheus
  • The future of fire.