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Living with fire

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November 2013, no. 356

Living with Fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek by Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths

CSIRO Publishing, $49.95 hb, 200 pp, 9780643104792

Living with fire

by
November 2013, no. 356

Fire, more than any other thing, challenges the divide between the cultural and the natural, between being human and the non-human world. We make a pact, if not with a devil, at least with terrible danger when we use fire; and it is a pact, despite how it might seem in our urban modernity, over which we have no choice. We need fire. It doesn’t need us. If it truly had character, as it so often seems to, it would be indifferent, callous, cruel. And it is this that cooks our food and warms our toes.

Robert Kenny reviews 'Living with Fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek', by Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths

Living with Fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek

by Christine Hansen and Tom Griffiths

CSIRO Publishing, $49.95 hb, 200 pp, 9780643104792

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