Author: GAMMAGE, BILL.
Title: The Biggest Estate on Earth. How Aborigines Made Australia.
Description: First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xxiii, 434; 59 colour illustrations within text; appendix 1, appendix 2, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Sydney; Allen & Unwin; 2011. `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.'
Keywords: Australian Aboriginal History Land Management
Title: The Biggest Estate on Earth. How Aborigines Made Australia.
Description: First Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. xxiii, 434; 59 colour illustrations within text; appendix 1, appendix 2, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Sydney; Allen & Unwin; 2011. `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.'
Keywords: Australian Aboriginal History Land Management
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 124206
- Book number: 124206