First Knowledges Country
future fire, future farming
$24.00
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
25 October 2021
Summary
First Knowledges: Indigenous Ingenuity for a Sustainable Future
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians.
For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760761554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760761559 |
| Series: | First Knowledges |
| Author: | Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Australia Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2021 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Bruce Pascoe
Bill Gammage is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. His books include The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War and three prize-winning titles - Narrandera Shire, The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.
Bruce Pascoe is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children’s literature. He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? which re-examines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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