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New book by Simon Pooley

By: Martin Wingfield

Last updated: Tuesday, 30 September 2014

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

Simon Pooley
Palgrave Macmillan, September 2014

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.