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| name             = Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada
| image            = AwfulSplendourCover.jpg
| caption    = Cover of original edition
| author           = [[Stephen J. Pyne]]
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| country          = Canada
| language         = English
| series           = "Nature, history, society"
| subject          = Forest fires in Canada
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| publisher        = [[UBC Press]]
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| pub_date         = 2007
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| pages            = 549
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| isbn             = 9780774813914
| oclc             = 145429214
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'''''Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada''''' is a 2007 non-fiction book by American environmental historian [[Stephen J. Pyne]]. It examines the natural, social and political history of [[forest fires]] in Canada.

==Background==
Author Pyne has a long relationship with forest fires; the [[Arizona State University]] professor was a wildland firefighter on the North Rim of the [[Grand Canyon]] for fifteen years, as well as a member of the [[United Nations]] Wildfire Advisory Group.<ref name="BCStudies">{{cite journal|last=Van Huizen|first=Philip|date=Winter 2008–09|title=Awful Splendour: A Fire History of Canada by Stephen J. Pyne|url=http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/571/615|journal=BC Studies|volume=160|issue=The Middle Fraser}}</ref> The book is part of a series on forest fires by Pyne.<ref name=Canlit>{{cite journal|last=Brownstein |first=David |title=Book Review: Canadian Forests |journal=Canadian Literature |date=Summer 2009 |volume=#209 |url=http://canlit.ca/reviews/canadian_forests |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150322053010/http://canlit.ca/reviews/canadian_forests |archive-date=2015-03-22 }}</ref>  In his ''Circle of Fire'' series, he has covered forest fires in the U.S., Australia and on a global scale. The [[Canadian Forest Service]] encouraged Pyne to tackle the topic of Canadian forest fires. The phrase "awful splendour" was taken from a quote from early Canadian naturalist [[Henry Youle Hind]], referring to the destructive beauty of prairie fires.<ref name=BCStudies />

==Synopsis==
The book is divided into three sections, titled "Torch", "Axe", and "Engine", roughly corresponding to the pre-contact, exploration, and industrial periods of Canadian history.<ref name=Canlit />  In its frequent mentions of American experiences with fire, the book engages in some [[comparative history]].<ref name=Canlit />  Pyne defines several geographical "rings" of fire in Canada, including the boreal forests, the coastal forests of the Pacific and Atlantic, the mountain forests of British Columbia and Alberta, and the mixed wood forests of the Prairies, Ontario, and Quebec.<ref name=Tyee>{{cite news|last=Kilian|first=Crawford|title=Canada's Fires|url=https://thetyee.ca/Books/2009/06/10/CanadaFire/|access-date=30 December 2012|newspaper=The Tyee|date=10 Jun 2009}}</ref>

==Reception==
''Canadian Literature'' noted that the book "filled a gaping hole" in Canadian scholarly writing on forest fires, and credited Pyne for accessing "[[grey literature]]" in hard to find locations. Reviewer David Brownstein called the book a "marvellously encyclopedic synthesis of a vast secondary literature on a complex topic."<ref name=Canlit />  Reviewed in ''BC Studies'', Philip Van Huizen praised the "elegant and evocative" writing of the author, as well as his use of narrative. The reviewer critiqued some of Pyne's organisational choices; by looking at fire management province-by-province, the third section of the book has some redundancies and can be "a chore to read (at least in places)."  In all, Van Huizen called the work a "formidable and impressive book".<ref name=BCStudies />

==Sources==
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[[Category:2007 non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Environmental non-fiction books]]
[[Category:Forests of Canada]]
[[Category:Natural history books]]
[[Category:Wildfires in Canada]]
[[Category:Environmental issues with forests]]
[[Category:University of British Columbia Press books]]
[[Category:Forest history]]
[[Category:Wildfire suppression]]
[[Category:Books about politics of Canada]]
[[Category:Comparative historical research]]
[[Category:Environmental history of Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian non-fiction books]]
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