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The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia / Bill Gammage
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572.994 GAM
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Sydney, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin
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2012
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xxiii, 434 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 25 cm.
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9781742377483
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Book
Abstract:
Across Australia, early Europeans commented 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. This was because Aboriginal people managed the land
in a systematic and scientific fashion by a complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year.
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Contents:
Australia in 1788 -- Why was Aboriginal land management possible? -- How was land managed? -- Invasion.
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