![]() ![]() 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.įor over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. ![]() ![]() With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Winner of the Prize for Australian History in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012 The History Book Award in the Queensland Literary Awards 2012 the Victorian Prize for Literature 2012 and the ACT Book of the Year 2012Īcross Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people. ![]()
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