Fire and Hearth: A Study of Aboriginal Usage and European Usurpation in South-Western Australia by Sylvia J Hallam

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owners have signed front cover and inside page. Some fraying to spine top. Interior and binding are still very good.

Australian Aboriginal Studies no.58. Includes fold-out map of King George Sound.

"The land the English settled was not as God made it. It was as the Aborigines made it."

Hallam provides evidence of Aboriginal use of fire in the south west of Western Australia, the place of fire in the pattern of Aboriginal land use and way of life. The effect of fire on vegetation and on European settlement is also explored. (Preamble)