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Author Wilkie, Benjamin, author

Title Gariwerd : an environmental history of the Grampians / Benjamin Wilkie
Published Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2020]
©2020

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Description xii, 134 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction -- 1: The restless Earth -- 2: The first people of Gariwerd -- 3: Strangers in a foreign land -- 4: Dispossession and environmental transformation -- 5: Science, resources and industry -- 6: The Grampians National Park -- 7: Colonial legacies -- Conclusion
Summary People have been visiting and living in the Victorian Grampians, also known as Gariwerd, for thousands of generations. They have both witnessed and caused vast environmental transformations in and around the ranges. "Gariwerd: A History of the Grampians" explores the geological and ecological significance of the mountains and combines research from across disciplines to tell the story of how humans and the environment have interacted, and how the ways people have thought about the environments of the ranges have changed through time. In this new account, historian Benjamin Wilkie examines how Djab wurrung and Jardwadjali people and their ancestors lived in and around the mountains, how they managed the land and natural resources, and what kinds of archaeological evidence they have left behind over the past twenty thousand years. He explores the history of European colonisation in the area from the middle of the nineteenth century and considers the effects of this on both the first people of Gariwerd and the environments of the ranges and their surrounding plains in western Victoria. The book covers the rise of science, industry and tourism in the mountains, and traces the eventual declaration of the Grampians National Park in 1984. Finally, it examines more recent debates about the past, present and future of the park, including over its significant Indigenous history and heritage
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Victoria, Western -- Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Victoria -- Grampians
Human ecology -- Victoria, Western
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Victoria, Western -- History
Grampians National Park (Vic.)$x History
Ethnobiology -- Australia
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) -- Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.)
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.) -- History
Human ecology -- Australia -- Grampians (Vic.)
SUBJECT Grampians National Park (Vic.)
Author CSIRO Publishing, issuing body
LC no. 2020303369
ISBN 9781486307685 (paperback)