Invisible Country: South-West Australia: Understanding a Landscape by Bill Bunbury

Invisible Country: South-West Australia: Understanding a Landscape by Bill Bunbury

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781742586250
Author: Bill Bunbury
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Place: Crawley WA
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270 pages with colour illustrations, includes bibliography and index

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Secondhand. As new

When Europeans first settled in Australia, the land withheld many of its secrets from them. There were broad rivers, wide plains and tall forests, all of which, to European eyes, suggested promising sites for settlement. To many of the new settlers, the First Australians were a puzzle. They moved freely through country they knew intimately. They had useful things to say to the European newcomers - if they would listen. What few realised then was that Aboriginal people, and the land they lived in, were indistinguishable. Failure to read the people made it hard to read the country.

Invisible Country describes the environmental change that has occurred in south-western Australia since European settlement, through four case studies of the development of local rivers, forests and coastal plains. These stories, compiled through extensive conversations with farmers, ecologists, traditional owners and others who rely on the land, are book-ended by an examination of the historical perspective in which these changes have occurred. It is a reminder that the land owns people, not the other way around, and is the beginning of a conversation about understanding and care for a land we are all lucky to live in.

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