Stephen J. Pyne
Environmental history, history of fire, history of exploration
My research interests focus on how people and nature interact. I teach courses on the history of exploration and environmental history, with a special enthusiasm for the history, ecology, and management of fire.
Selected Books
Awful Splendor: A Fire History of Canada (2007)
The Still-Burning Bush (2006)
Brittlebush Valley (2005)
Tending Fire. Coping with America's Wildland Fires (Sept 2004)
Smokechasing (2003)
Fire: A Brief History (2001)
Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 (2001)
How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History (1998)
America's Fires. Management on Wildlands and Forests (1997)
Introduction to Wildland Fire, 2nd ed (1997)
Vestal Fire. An Environmental History, Told Through Fire, of Europe and Europe's Encounter with the World (1997)
World Fire. The Culture of Fire on Earth (1995)
Burning Bush. A Fire History of Australia (1991)
Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter's Season at the Grand Canyon (1989)
Wildland Fires and Nuclear Winters: Selected Historic Reconstructions (1985)
The Ice. A Journey to Antarctica (1986)
Fire in America. A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire (1982)
Grove Karl Gilbert (1980)
In progress:
Voice and Vision: A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Seeking Newer Worlds. The Saga of the Voyager Mission. An Inquiry into the Third Great Age of Discovery (book-length manuscript, written).