The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

by Bill Gammage

Book Overview

Reveals the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people in presettlement Australia 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. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than most people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 174331132X
• ISBN13: 9781743311325
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"