The Burning Earth: A History of Fire and Humanity

A sweeping global history of fire—its role in shaping human civilisation, its relationship to ecology, its use as a tool of war and land management across cultures, and its terrifying return as catastrophic wildfire in the age of climate change. Historian Sunil Amrith traces fire's place in human history from earliest human evolution to the burning forests of the twenty-first century. Winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction.