The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage

The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781743311325
Author: Bill Gammage
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 1992
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384 pages

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Faint marks on foredges.

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. (back cover)

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