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The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (2012, Paperback)

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By Bill Gammage. 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.

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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
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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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

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Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
Title_Author
Bill Gammage
City
St Leonards

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by 5429michaelm02 Dec, 2021
How Australia has been devistated since 1788!
What Australia was like before colonisation by Europeans is clearly revealed. How this land has been changed since then is both shocking and revealing. This book shows that we must change our present land and water management practices that will leave us very soon with a devastated and unlivable continent. Our First Peoples can show us the way and us white fellas must work with them to secure the future survival of us all. Australia can be a much better place for life if we return to the original, well tried land & water management practices.
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by pal_purple28 Nov, 2019
Very well told true story
This book should be read by all Australians
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by jazzbouypeter28 Nov, 2019
A great read
This is a book every Australian should read, amazing
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by tugun787806 Mar, 2020
Great book
The most interesting read
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by voiceofkuranda25 Aug, 2016
How to become Australian.
This book gives a summary of how Australians lived and thought over the last 50,000 years. The Aboriginals have intregriated with European perceptions. It is time that Europeans intregriated with Australian perceptions.
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The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (2012, Paperback)

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