Country : future fire, future farming
Gammage, Bill, 1942-2021
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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. This third book focuses on land and fire management. 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 through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever. About the series: Each book is a collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers and editors; the series is edited by Margo Neale, senior Indigenous curator at the National Museum of Australia.
Country : future fire, future farming / Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; edited by Margo Neale.
Port Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021.©2021
211 pages : maps ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781760761554 (pbk)9781760761554
333.730899915333.73
English
472680
Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 333.73 GAM | Onloan - Due: 14 Oct 2024 |
Sandringham Library | Adult Non Fiction - Indigenous | 333.73 GAM | Available |