The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2013

Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781743311325
ISBN-10: 174331132X
Pagini: 434
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.04 kg
Editura: Allen & Unwin

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

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

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