Foreword by William Cronon Preface to the 1998 Paperback Edition Preface to the Original Edition: Firestick History Map of Australia Map of Australia's Vegetation Prologue: Dust to Dust BOOK ONE: THE EUCALYPT The Universal Australian Unemaginable Freaks of Fire: Profile of a Pyrophyte Red Centre: Fire Regimes of Old Australia Land of Contraries BOOK TWO: THE ABORIGINE Flaming Front Fierstick Farmer: Profile of a Pyrophile Fires of the Dreaming Smokes by Day, Fires by Night: Fire Regimes of Aboriginal Australia This Wonderful Depository of Fire BOOK THREE: THE EUROPEAN Entwining Fire Reconnaissance by Fire: Education of a Pyrophile Red Steer and Green Pick Beyond the Black Stump Fire Conservancy Burning Off: Fire Provinces of European Australia When the Billy Boiled BOOK FOUR: THE NEW AUSTRALIAN The Two Fires Antipodean Fire: The Australian Strategy Wild Bush, Urban Bush: Fire Regimes in New Australia Epilogue: Ashes to Ashes Notes Bibliographic Essay Index.