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Tables of Contents for Burning Bush
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
4
William Cronon
Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition
xiii
4
Preface to the Original Edition: Firestick History
xvii
5
Map of Australia
xxii
2
Map of Australia's Vegetation
xxiv
Prologue: Dust to Dust
1
14
BOOK I: THE EUCALYPT
15
56
1. The Universal Australian
15
11
2. Unimaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte
26
16
3. Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia
42
15
4. Land of Contrarities
57
14
BOOK II: THE ABORIGINE
71
82
5. Flaming Front
71
14
6. Firestick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile
85
20
7. Fires of the Dreaming
105
16
8. Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia
121
15
9. This Wonderful Depository of Fire
136
17
BOOK III: THE EUROPEAN
153
168
10. Entwining Fire
153
30
11. Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile
183
16
12. Red Steers and Green Pick
199
28
13. Beyond the Black Stump
227
20
14. Fire Conservancy
247
28
15. Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia
275
26
16. When the Billy Boiled
301
20
BOOK IV: THE NEW AUSTRALIAN
321
89
17. The Two Fires
321
17
18. Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy
338
26
19. Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes of New Australia
364
24
20. Dieback
388
22
Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes
410
13
Notes
423
70
Bibliographic Essay
493
6
Index
499