To the Last Smoke: An Anthology - Softcover

Pyne, Stephen J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816540128 ISBN 13: 9780816540129

Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 2020

Synopsis

From boreal Alaska to subtropical Florida, from the chaparral of California to the pitch pine of New Jersey, America boasts nearly a billion burnable acres. In nine previous volumes, Stephen J. Pyne has explored the fascinating variety of flame region by region. In To the Last Smoke: An Anthology, he selects a sampling of the best from each.

To the Last Smoke offers a unique and sweeping view of the nation’s fire scene by distilling observations on Florida, California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, the Interior West, the Northeast, Alaska, the oak woodlands, and the Pacific Northwest into a single, readable volume. The anthology functions as a color-commentary companion to the play-by-play narrative offered in Pyne’s Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America. The series is Pyne’s way of “keeping with it to the end,” encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire “to the last smoke.”

About this title

About the Author

Stephen J. Pyne is an emeritus professor at Arizona State University. He is the author of more than 30 books, mostly on wildland fire, including Between Two Fires: A Fire History of Contemporary America, also published by the University of Arizona Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816540128
• ISBN 13: 9780816540129
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448