Bushfires And Bushtucker
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Bushfires And Bushtucker
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Author : Peter Latz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06-15
Bushfires And Bushtucker written by Peter Latz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-15 with categories.
The most comprehensive survey every published of desert plant uses. Many Aboriginal peoples have shared their knowledge to produce this lively and accessible book.
Bushfires And Bushtucker
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Author : Peter Kenneth Latz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Bushfires And Bushtucker written by Peter Kenneth Latz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Pocket Bushtucker
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Author : Peter Latz
language : en
Publisher: Iad Press
Release Date : 1999
Pocket Bushtucker written by Peter Latz and has been published by Iad Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Cooking categories.
Pocket Bushtucker is a new soft back pocket sized edition of Peter Latz's comprehensive Bushfires and Bushtucker: Aboriginal Plant Use in Central Australia, a consistent strong seller since its publication in 1995. This new edition distills the information into a handy field guide to the flora of Central Australia, with special attention given to the names and use in traditional Aboriginal culture. There are clear, helpful line drawings of all species, along with 16 pages of color photos. The text gives a description of each plant's habitats, a brief description of each plant's identifying characteristics, and is referenced to the relevant page of book's location map. All botanical names have been updated with an extensive index and cross- reference in the back of the book. Pocket Bushtucker is essential for any visitor to Central Australia and an excellent reference for amateur botanists and those interested in traditional foods, medicines and lifestyles.
Burn
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Author : Paul Collins
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2009-09-28
Burn written by Paul Collins and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-28 with History categories.
‘Dry heat and hot, dry winds worked upon a land already dry, to suck from it the last, least drop of moisture. Men who had lived their lives in the bush went their ways in the shadow of dread expectancy. But though they felt the imminence of danger they could not tell that it was to be far greater than they could imagine. They had not lived long enough.’ — Report of the Royal Commission into the bushfires of January 1939 With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in this country. In Burn Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushfire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most devastating conflagrations in Australia’s European history — from the 1851 Black Thursday fire (which burnt out one quarter of Victoria) to the 1939 Black Friday fires (which took many lives and destroyed thousands of hectares in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania), the Canberra inferno of 2003, and the Black Saturday fires of February 2009. Frightening, compelling, vivid, and provocative, Burn reveals stories of heroism, stupidity, political incompetence, and environmental vandalism. This is the grand narrative of bushfire in Australia, the most fire-prone land on Earth.
Bushfires In Australia
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Author : John Lesley
language : en
Publisher: Redback Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Bushfires In Australia written by John Lesley and has been published by Redback Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Along with cyclones and floods, bushfires have always been part of the Australian natural environment. Increasing population has meant that more homes are being built in the outer parts of cities. These regions are close to natural bushland where there might be bushfires in the future. Thousands of years ago, Indigenous Australians developed ways of managing bushfires, so that the landscapes they cared for would not suffer catastrophic destruction. Today, firefighters also undertake hazard reduction burns to keep areas safe from monster bushfires.
Bushfires In Australia
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Author : R. Harry Luke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Bushfires In Australia written by R. Harry Luke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Aeronautics in bushfire control categories.
Includes mention of Aboriginal use of fire.
Living With Fire
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Author : Tom Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Living With Fire written by Tom Griffiths and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Science categories.
Within the Yarra River catchment area nestles the valley of Steels Creek, a small shallow basin in the lee of Kinglake plateau and the Great Dividing Range. The escarpment walls of the range drop in a series of ridges to the valley and form the south-eastern boundary of the Kinglake National Park. The gentle undulations that flow out from the valley stretch into the productive and picturesque landscape of Victoria’s famous wine growing district, the Yarra Valley. Late on the afternoon of 7 February 2009, the day that came to be known as Black Saturday, the Kinglake plateau carried a massive conflagration down the fringing ranges into the Steels Creek community. Ten people perished and 67 dwellings were razed in the firestorm. In the wake of the fires, the devastated residents of the valley began the long task of grieving, repairing, rebuilding or moving on while redefining themselves and their community. In Living with Fire, historians Tom Griffiths and Christine Hansen trace both the history of fire in the region and the human history of the Steels Creek valley in a series of essays which examine the relationship between people and place. These essays are interspersed with four interludes compiled from material produced by the community. In the immediate aftermath of the fire many people sought to express their grief, shock, sadness and relief in artwork. Some painted or wrote poetry, while others collected the burnt remains of past treasures from which they made new objects. These expressions, supplemented by historical archives and the essays they stand beside, offer a sensory and holistic window into the community’s contemporary and historical experiences. A deeply moving book, Living with Fire brings to life the stories of one community’s experience with fire, offering a way to understand the past, and in doing so, prepare for the future.
The Still Burning Bush
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Author : Stephen Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Scribe Publications
Release Date : 2020-02-07
The Still Burning Bush written by Stephen Pyne and has been published by Scribe Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-07 with Nature categories.
Long a fire continent, Australia now finds itself at the leading edge of a fire epoch. Australia is one of the world’s fire powers. It not only has regular bushfires, but in no other country has fire made such an impact on the national culture. Over the past two decades, bushfires have reasserted themselves as an environmental, social, and political presence. And now they dominate the national conversation. The Still-Burning Bush traces the ecological and social significance of the use of fire to shape the environment through Australian history, beginning with Aboriginal usage, and the subsequent passing of the firestick to rural colonists and then to foresters, to ecologists, and back to Indigenes. Each transfer kindled public debate not only over suitable fire practices but also about how Australians should live on the land. The 2009 Black Saturday bushfires and the 2019–2020 season have heightened the sense of urgency behind this discussion. In its original 2006 edition, The Still-Burning Bush concluded with the aftershocks of the 2003 bushfires. A new preface and epilogue updates the narrative, including the global changes that are affecting Australia. Especially pertinent is the concept of a Pyrocene — the idea that humanity’s cumulative fire practices are fashioning the fire equivalent of an ice age.
Burning Bush
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Author : Stephen J. Pyne
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2014-10-07
Burning Bush written by Stephen J. Pyne and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-07 with History categories.
From the time of the continent's formation tens of millions of years ago as the Godwana twin of Antarctica, Australia has been dominated by fire much as its sister has been by ice. Now Stephen Pyne, one of our foremost environmental historians, proposes a major reinterpretation of the Australian experience by using fire and Australia to explain one another. He narrates the story of how fire came to Australia and interacted with the Australian biota and its human inhabitants, while at the same time he relates the planetary saga of fire as it has been played out on this special island continent. Much as the Aborigines exploited fire to remake their environment into something more usable, so Stephen Pyne exploits fire to transform the landscape of history into something more accessible, to use its transmuting power to extract new meaning out of familiar events. Pyne traces the impact of fire, from its initial influence on the evolving vegetation of the new continent, through its use by the Aborigines and the subsequent European settlers, to the holocaust of February 1983 known as Ash Wednesday, and he shows us that the dynamic nature of fire has made it a most powerful environmental determinant in Australia, shaping both its social and natural histories. In his critically acclaimed study of Antarctica, The Ice, Pyne explored the myriad dimensions of the cold continent; now Burning Bush offers us an equally absorbing examination of a continent informed by fire.
Great Australian Bushfire Stories
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Author : Ian Mannix
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Great Australian Bushfire Stories written by Ian Mannix and has been published by HarperCollins Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Travel categories.
'the biggest cleared area was my vegetable patch ... I ran and lay down and made a little tent over myself. I thought it would preserve the last of the oxygen. Under the blanket I could hear explosions - the gas bottles from the houses further up, and I could just imagine all my neighbours dead up the road. the wind was roaring, the trees cracking: an awful lot of noise ... I thought I wasn't going to survive.' Peter Luke, Gaffneys Creek, Victoria 'the sky got darker again ... I started to think about the next day's newspaper headlines: "Stupid thirty-eight-weeks pregnant woman drives into fire with toddler."' Sonia Stanton, Canberra 'I looked down into where the houses were totally surrounded by a sea of flame and thought, well, that's it, she's all over. Everybody will be killed down there.' John Hyles, Namadgi Ranges GREAt AUStRALIAN BUSHFIRE StORIES is a collection of remarkable tales from all around Australia that tell of our country's fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Farmers, landowners, firefighters and city dwellers share with ABC journalist Ian Mannix their experiences of fires: preparing for them, fighting them, and the heartbreak task of mopping up when even their best efforts failed. Some stories are funny, some tragic, many courageous, but all are a testimony to the ingenuity and grit of human beings as they fight to save their homes, their towns and, in some cases, their lives.