Fire in the hills : a history of rural fire-fighting in New Zealand / Helen Beaglehole.

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Beaglehole, Helen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Canterbury University Press:Christchurch , N.Z. 2012Description: 343 p. ; 27 cmISBN:

9781927145357

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363.378

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Non-Fiction - New Zealand	Waimate Non-Fiction	Non Fiction	363.78 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00628832

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 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.

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