Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia
Bill Gammage
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.
ISBN: 9781743311325
Author: Gammage, Bill
Publication date: 20/06/2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Dimension: 245mm X 174mm
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.
ISBN: 9781743311325
Author: Gammage, Bill
Publication date: 20/06/2012
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Dimension: 245mm X 174mm