The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.
by Gammage, Bill
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 174331132X
- ISBN 13
- 9781743311325
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney, Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2012. P/b, reprint ed.. Paperback thick small quarto, very good condition, colour photos (some full-page, few black & white), top corners some pages lightly creased, corners four pages folded (bookmarks), minor edgewear. Heavy (1.1 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 434 pp. Bill Gammage has examined the written and visual records of the Australian landscape, and found a complex system of land management by Aborigines using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plenty of plant life and wildlife to last throughout the year. In this classic and fascinating book he discusses the ways the early settlers changed for the worse the way the Aboriginal people tended their land. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. (Winner of nine literary awards.).
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18237
- Title
- The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.
- Author
- Gammage, Bill
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- P/b, reprint ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 174331132X
- ISBN 13
- 9781743311325
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney, Crows Nest
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- aborigines, indigenous, australian history, environment, earth sciences, geography, landscape, first edition
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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