Stephen J. Pyne 
Vestal Fire [EPUB ebook] 
An Environmental History, Told through Fire, of Europe and Europe’s Encounter with the World

Contents
Foreword by William Cronon
Author’s Notes
Prologue: Quest for Fire
Book 1: Elements
Flame
Diamond in the Rough: A Physical Geography of European Fire
New Worlds from Old: A Biogeography of European Fire
Fusain and Flame: A Natural History of European Fire
Torch
Errant Fire: The Hominid Colonization of Europe
Cultivated Fire: The Agricultural Reclamation of Europe
Pyrotechnia: The Technology of Combustion
Hearth
Domiciled Fire: Hearth and House
The Fire in the Cave: Combustion and Cognition
Need-Fire, Vestal Fire: Ceremony and Ritual
Book 2: Europe
Eternal Flame: Fire in Mediterranean Europe
Prologue: West of Eden
Behold, Before a Garden, Behind a Waste
Arcadia and Anarchy: Mediterranean Pastorale
Grand Traverse: Imperial France
Mediterranean Miniature: Cyprus
Epilogue: Fin-de Siecle Fire
Controlled Combustion: Fire in Central Europe
Prologue: Ashes and Embers
Landnam: The Fire of First Contact
Reclamation: The Fire in the Garden
Revolution: The Enlightenment Comes to Agriculture
Revolution Redux: Forestry Takes Command
Epilogue: Holocaust
Wild Hearth: Fire in Boreal Europe
Prologue: Fire and Water
Fire and Sword: The Historia of Olaus Magnus
Fire and Ax: The Finnish Colonization
Fire and Field: The Travels of Linnaeus
Fire and Iron: The Adventures of Nils
Epilogue: Final Flame
Flaming Front: Fire in Eurasian Europe
Prologue: Wooden Rus’ Is like a Fire
The Candle and the Torch
Lines of Fire, Fields of Fire
Emancipation and Suppression
When the Sky Burned
Epilogue: Fire in the Minds of Men
Spot Fires: Fire in Atlantic Europe
Prologue: Sparks in the Wind
It Was All a Planted Garden: The British Isles
Green Fire: The Celtic Isle
Northern Mists, Northern Smoke: The Norse Islands
Blessed Isles, Burned Isles: The Iberian Islands
Epilogue: The World Encompassed
Book 3: Earth
Islands
New Fire: The Coming of Antropogenic Fire
Strange Fire: The Coming of European Fire
Sacred Fire: The Coming of Conservation
Continents
Carrying the Fire: Europe Expands
Counter Fire: Europe Contains
Fire in the Ashes: Europe Rekindles
Planets
Conduction: The European Connection
Radiation: The Neo-Europes
Convection: Black Death, Heat Death
Epilogue: Beyond the Realm of Fire
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Stephen J. Pyne is a professor in the Biology and Society Program at Arizona State Universty. He is the author of many books, including Year of the Fires: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910 and Fire on the Rim: A Firefighter’s Season at the Grand Canyon. Fire: A Brief History is the sixth volume in Pyne’s Cycle of Fire, which also includes Vestal Fire, World Fire, Burning Bush, The Ice and Fire in America.