Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula

by Simon Pooley

Book Overview

Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349490598
• ISBN13: 9781349490592
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"