The Battle for Fire

Fire made human civilization possible. It also created the systems now destabilizing the climate, landscapes, and communities that depend on it.

The Battle for Fire: The Covenant We Ignite explores humanity's oldest partnership-from the first hearths that warmed early societies to the combustion engines, power plants, and global energy networks that transformed the modern world.

John S. Pritchett presents fire not merely as flame, but as a force of awakening, creation, story, power, expansion...