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Burning bush : a fire history of Australia /
Published 1998An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Fire, native peoples, and the natural landscape
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…/ Thomas R. Vale -- Indians and fire in the Rocky Mountains : the wilderness hypothesis renewed / William L. …”
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Tropical visions in an age of empire
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Views and visions of the tropical world / Felix Driver, Luciana Martins -- "On the spot": traveling artists and the iconographic inventory of the world, 1769-1859 / Claudio Greppi -- The stimulations of travel: Humboldt's physiological construction of the tropics / Michael Dettelbach -- "The struggle for luxuriance": William Burchell collects tropical nature / Luciana Martins, Felix Driver -- Dominica and Tahiti: tropical islands compared / Peter Hulme -- Imagining the tropical colony: Henry Smeathman and the termites of Sierra Leone / Starr Douglas, Felix Driver -- Matthew Fontaine Maury's "sea of fire": hydrography, biogeography, and providence in the tropics / D. …”
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Folklore in all of us, in all we do /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Mosel-Talavera -- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr -- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte -- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio -- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz -- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams -- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead) -- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell -- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin -- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. …”
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Folklore : In All of Us, In All We Do /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Mosel-Talavera -- Madame Blackley : seer of south Texas / Henry Wolff, Jr -- La Llorona's ancestry : crossing cultural boundaries / Gloria Duarte -- Burning brightly : the Easter fires of maternal necessity / Donna Melitio -- Five stands off bottom / Lew Schnitz -- Dispatches from the electronic front lines / Charles Williams -- A rural mail carrier / Milt McAfee (as told by Ben Mead) -- The trials and tribulations of a dirt road country doctor / Mildred Boren Sentell -- Joe Fitzgerald, nurseryman and philosopher / Mary Joe (Fitzgerald) Clendenin -- Water woes and water ways : tales of Texas engineer John B. …”
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Human impacts on Amazonia the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Balick -- Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians / John Hemming -- Constructing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- Fire in Romania, 1998 - politics and human impact : what role for indigenous people in Brazilian Amazonia? …”
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