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This book is a history of man's relationship with fire, from his earliest prehistoric taming of this most basic elemental force, through to the Industrial Revolution, nuclear fission and beyond. The book is primarily a social history of man's control - and failure to control - fire, and of his uses, agricultural, industrial, symbolic and artistic of it.
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| ISBN: | 9780713990775 |
| Publisher: | Allen Lane |
| Imprint: | Allen Lane |
| Pub date: | 24 Sep 1992 |
| DEWEY: | 363.37 |
| DEWEY edition: | 20 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 247 |
| Weight: | 564g |
| Height: | 240mm |
| Width: | 162mm |
| Spine width: | 25mm |
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