Biggest Estate on Earth (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
384
Utgivningsdatum
2012-06-01
Upplaga
Main
Utmärkelser
Winner of Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2012 (Australia); Winner of Victorian Prize for Literature 2012 (Australia); Winner of and Victorian Premier's Literary Awards (Prize for Non-Fi
Förlag
Allen & Unwin
Illustrationer
80pp colour insert
Dimensioner
244 x 170 x 30 mm
Vikt
1044 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781743311325

Biggest Estate on Earth

How Aborigines made Australia

av Bill Gammage
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-06-01

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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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"A beautiful and profound piece of writing, one that has importance for us all." --"Age" "This bold book, with its lucid prose and vivid illustrations, will be discussed for years to come." --"Australian Book Review"

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Bill Gammage is a historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. He is best known as author of the ground-breaking The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.

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ContentsIllustrationsThanksSourcesAbbreviationsDefinitionsForeword by Henry ReynoldsAustralia in 1788Introduction: The Australian estate1. Curious landscapes2. Canvas of a continentWhy was Aboriginal land management possible?3. The nature of Australia4. Heaven on earth5. CountryHow was land managed?6. The closest ally7. Associations8. Templates9. A capital tour10. Farms without fencesInvasion11. Becoming AustralianAppendix 1: Science, history and landscapeAppendix 2: Current botanical names for plants named with capitals in the textNotesBibliographyIndex

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