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Biggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia by Bill Gammage (2013, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherAllen & Unwin

ISBN-10174331132X

ISBN-139781743311325

eBay Product ID (ePID)16038395845

Product Key Features

Book TitleBiggest Estate on Earth : How Aborigines Made Australia

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicDevelopment / Economic Development, Indigenous Studies, Australia & New Zealand, Natural Resources

Publication Year2013

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Social Science, Business & Economics, History

AuthorBill Gammage

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight38 Oz

Item Length9.5 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This bold book, with its lucid prose and vivid illustrations, will be discussed for years to come." Australian Book Review, "This bold book, with its lucid prose and vivid illustrations, will be discussed for years to come." - Australian Book Review, "This bold book, with its lucid prose and vivid illustrations, will be discussed for years to come." -- Australian Book Review

Dewey Decimal305.89915

Table Of ContentContents Illustrations Thanks Sources Abbreviations Definitions Foreword by Henry Reynolds Australia in 1788 Introduction: The Australian estate 1. Curious landscapes 2. Canvas of a continent Why was Aboriginal land management possible? 3. The nature of Australia 4. Heaven on earth 5. Country How was land managed? 6. The closest ally 7. Associations 8. Templates 9. A capital tour 10. Farms without fences Invasion 11. Becoming Australian Appendix 1: Science, history and landscape Appendix 2: Current botanical names for plants named with capitals in the text Notes Bibliography Index

SynopsisExplodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. 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., Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettlement Australia 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. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than most people have ever realized. For more than a decade, he has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and this book reveals how. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires Australians now experience. With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, this book rewrites the history of the continent, with huge implications for today., Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.