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 ...
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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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Add this copy of The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made to cart. $29.81, very good condition, Sold by 8trax Media rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Mansfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 2012 by Allen & Unwin.
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F. Signed by Author. 4to. original printed paper wraps (a trifle rubbed); pp. xxviii, 434, with illustrations. Heavy item (1.3 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy. Inscribed on title page by the author, to Australian traditional folk singer 'Danny Spooner, care-less man in admiration, Bill Gammage 30/3/13'.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. 25cm x 18cm. xxiii, 434 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket. First printing of Gammage's Aboriginal history classic. Shipped Weight: 1.25 kilos. ISBN: 1742377483. ISBN/EAN: 9781742377483.
Add this copy of The Biggest Estate on Earth. How Aborigines Made to cart. $319.00, like new condition, Sold by Arapiles Mountain Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Castlemaine, VIC, AUSTRALIA, published 2001 by Allen & Unwin.
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F in F jacket. F/F. 4to. original green boards gilt (a trifle rubbed) in dustwrapper; pp. xxviii, 434, with illustrations. Heavy item (1.5 kg), additional postage may be required for international delivery. A fine copy of the first edition.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo. xxiii, 434pp, index, bibliography, notes, appendices, bw & col ills. Or pale green cloth in jacket. A few tiny, very faint spots to page edges, otherwise near new. The scarce first printing of Gammage's classic on pre-colonial Aboriginal peoples in Australia. Before the arrival of Europeans Aboriginal peoples managed the Australian land through and extraordinarily complex system using fire, water and the life cycles of native plants. With details of land management strategies from around Australia, this volume rewrites the history of the continent, with huge implications for 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 National Parks is nothing of the kind.
