Mallee Country: Land, People, History

by Charles Fahey, Katie Holmes, Andrea Gaynor, et al.

Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925523128
• ISBN13: 9781925523126
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Monash University Publishing
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"