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ISBN-13
9781743311325
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Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012; The History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards 2012; the Victorian Prize for Literature 2012; and the ACT Book of the Year 2012 Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised. For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it. With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind.

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Publisher
Allen & Unwin
ISBN-13
9781743311325
UPC
9781743311325
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Product Key Features

Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia
Subject
Management, History
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Regional History
Author
Bill Gammage
Format
Paperback

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Item Height
244 mm
Item Weight
1046 g
Item Width
172 mm

Additional Product Features

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Australia
Title_Author
Bill Gammage
City
St Leonards

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