The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia de Gammage, Bill

Allen Unwin Australia, 2013-04-01. Reprint. paperback. Used: Good.

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Sydney: Allen & Unwin. 2012. Small Quarto Size [approx 17.5cm x 24cm]. Very Good condition. Colour plates and photographs. Previous owner's details to preliminary pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 434 pages. For over a decade the author has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape to uncover an extraordinarily complex system of land management [by the Aborigines] using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. A multi-award winning book. . Reprint. Softcover.

Sydney; Allen & Unwin; 2011 reprinted 2012. paperback in very good condition, pages tanned on edges. 434 pages, colour photos and maps

Crows Nest NSW Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2012 434 pages. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly marked. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.. Paperback. Very Good.

Allen Unwin Australia, 2013-04-01. Reprint. paperback. Used:Good.

Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2012. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Paper Edition. 170mm x 245mm. Minimal wear to covers. Spine not creased. Internally clean. 434pp.

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.).

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2012. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA AUSTRALIAN FLORA FAUNA AGRICULTURE ABORIGINAL""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… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.