9781927145357 - fire in the hills: a history of rural fire-fighting in new zealand de beaglehole, helen (5 resultados)
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Librería: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, Nueva ZelandaThe Secret Bookshop
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Feels unread and has very light shelf wear only. Over six to seven hundred years, Maori burned about one third of New Zealand's ground cover. In the following 70 years, and at a devastating rate, European settlers burned about another third as they cleared and 'improved' the land. All too freque…ntly, burn-offs became uncontrollable conflagrations that swept through thousands of hectares, destroying cattle, fences, homes and livelihoods, and burning mills and much-needed timber. Townsfolk, blanketed in dense, acrid smoke needed lights at mid-day; ships, unable to pick up landmarks, sat marrooned in harbour - yet the burning, as in other frontier societies, remained unabated and largely unquestioned. It is against that background that Helen Beaglehole sets the fascinating and previously unexplored history of how settlers' random and careless burning led, in 1921, to legislation that still underpins New Zealand's official policy on wildfire. She explores the huge public education campaign that sought to convince all sectors of the public that mindless burning had to be retrained, and traces how increasingly sophisticated fire-fighting technologies, coupled with developing knowledge of weather and fire behaviour, were used to prevent, contain and extinguish fire. Finally she looks at the early Forest Service employees who in effect became the nation's first rural firefighters, their skills honed in the vast controlled burns of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and describes the regime established after the Service's demise and the issues faced today. As with Helen Beaglehole's two books on New Zealand's lighthouses and lighthouse keeping, Fire in the Hills is grounded in detailed and extensive research. Information from historical records is incorporated with material from interviews with past and present rural firefighters and administrators, bringing vividly to light the times, the people and the problems they faced. Some 200 photographs further broaden our historical understanding.
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Librería: Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaGrand Eagle Retail
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The fascinating history of how settlers' random and careless burning led, in 1921, to legislation that still underpins New Zealand's official policy on wildfire. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Librería: The Secret Bookshop, Tararua, Nueva ZelandaThe Secret Bookshop
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Soft cover. Condición: New. New and Unread. Over six to seven hundred years, Maori burned about one third of New Zealand's ground cover. In the following 70 years, and at a devastating rate, European settlers burned about another third as they cleared and 'improved' the land. All too frequently, burn-offs became uncontrollable c…onflagrations that swept through thousands of hectares, destroying cattle, fences, homes and livelihoods, and burning mills and much-needed timber. Townsfolk, blanketed in dense, acrid smoke needed lights at mid-day; ships, unable to pick up landmarks, sat marrooned in harbour - yet the burning, as in other frontier societies, remained unabated and largely unquestioned. It is against that background that Helen Beaglehole sets the fascinating and previously unexplored history of how settlers' random and careless burning led, in 1921, to legislation that still underpins New Zealand's official policy on wildfire. She explores the huge public education campaign that sought to convince all sectors of the public that mindless burning had to be retrained, and traces how increasingly sophisticated fire-fighting technologies, coupled with developing knowledge of weather and fire behaviour, were used to prevent, contain and extinguish fire. Finally she looks at the early Forest Service employees who in effect became the nation's first rural firefighters, their skills honed in the vast controlled burns of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, and describes the regime established after the Service's demise and the issues faced today. As with Helen Beaglehole's two books on New Zealand's lighthouses and lighthouse keeping, Fire in the Hills is grounded in detailed and extensive research. Information from historical records is incorporated with material from interviews with past and present rural firefighters and administrators, bringing vividly to light the times, the people and the problems they faced. Some 200 photographs further broaden our historical understanding.
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Librería: Book Express (NZ), Shannon, Nueva ZelandaBook Express (NZ)
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Paperback. Condición: Good. 343 pages. Heavy book check postage with us. Ex-library - very tidy.
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Librería: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, AustraliaAussieBookSeller
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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The fascinating history of how settlers' random and careless burning led, in 1921, to legislation that still underpins New Zealand's official policy on wildfire. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
