It took me a while to realize that this book wasn't about the development of the Ice Age and the evolving of homo sapiens, but, rather, a story about the development of man's idea about thinking about those things.The story that we tell (the narrative) to explain our understanding has changed as our...
Stephen Pyne spent 15 summers fighting forest fires. His new very enlightening and entertaining book is somewhat misleading as he has actually compressed those 15 years into what purports to be one summer. Although the book does not cover the famous Yellowstone fires of 1988 it does address some of ...
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