Young Dark Emu
A Truer History
$34.23
- Hardcover
64 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2019
Summary
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first-person accounts in a book for younger readers.
Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived – a land of cultivated farming areas, p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925360844 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925360849 |
| Author: | Bruce Pascoe |
| Publisher: | Magabala Books |
| Imprint: | Magabala Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2019 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 247mm x 249mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe has published widely in both adult and young adult literature. He has won numerous awards, including the Children s Book Council of Australia Eve Pownall Award for Young Dark Emu, New South Wales Premier s Book of the Year Award in 2016 for Dark Emu, and the Prime Minister s Literature Award for Young Adult fiction for Fog a Dox in 2013. In 2018 Bruce was awarded the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. He has worked as a teacher, farmer, fisherman, barman, fencing contractor, lecturer, Aboriginal language researcher, archaeological site worker and editor. Bruce is a Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian man, and currently lives on his farm in Gippsland, Victoria.
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