Title The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia / Bill Gammage

Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 434 pages) : color illustrations, maps Contents Australia in 1788 -- Why was Aboriginal land management possible? -- How was land managed? -- Invasion Summary "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 he has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily 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. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter ... 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."--Dust cover Analysis Aboriginal australians Land management Land use Natural resources History Human ecology Notes N copy signed and inscribed by the author, 3 August 2013. ANL Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-415) and index Audience Tertiary/Undergraduate General Notes English Prime Minister's Literary Awards: Prize for Australian History, 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Award, Douglas Stewart Prize: Shortlist (2013) Print version record Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Fire use Fire management -- Australia -- History Burning of land -- Australia -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Fire use -- History Land use -- Australia -- Northern Territory Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) Burning of land -- Environmental aspects Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture. Fire ecology -- Australia Land use -- Australia -- History Shifting cultivation -- Australia Human ecology -- Australia -- History Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture -- History Land use -- Australia -- Management -- History Natural resources -- Australia -- Management -- History Aboriginal Australians -- History Land use -- Australia. Natural resources -- Management. Environment -- Land management Plants -- Eucalypts Environment -- Land management -- Fire Religion -- Totemism Settlement and contacts -- Colonisation -- 1788-1850 Shifting cultivation Land use Human ecology Fire management Fire ecology Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology) Burning of land -- Environmental aspects Burning of land Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture Land use -- Management Natural resources -- Management Aborigines Landnutzung Landschaftsentwicklung Landwirtschaft SUBJECT Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591 Subject Northern Territory Australia Australien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Gammage, Bill ISBN 9781742377483 1742377483 9781742693521 1742693520 9786613270245 6613270245

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