| ISBN |
9781760761554 |
| 1760761559 |
| Classification |
333.73 GAM |
| Personal Name |
Gammage, Bill |
| Title |
Country : future fire, future farming / Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe ; [introduction by Margot Neale]. |
| Portion of title |
Future fire, future farming |
| Spine title |
Country |
| Publication Details |
Port Melbourne, Victoria : Thames & Hudson Australia, 2021. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
Port Melbourne, Vic. : Thames & Hudson/National Museum Australia, 2021. |
| Physical Description |
211 pages : maps ; 20 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Series |
First Knowledges 3 |
| Note |
Colour illustrations on endpapers. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
1. Personal perspectives -- 2. Land care -- 3. Cultivating country -- 4. Future farming -- 5. Country -- 6. An ancient alliance -- 7. Holding the spark: 1788 Fire notes -- 8. Babes in the wood -- 9. Poor fella my country -- 10. How we might love mother Earth more. |
| Summary Note |
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. |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Aboriginal Australians -- Land tenure |
| Wildfires -- Prevention and control -- Australia |
| Fire ecology -- Australia |
| Land use -- Australia |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Agriculture |
| Traditional farming -- Australia |
| Agricultural ecology -- Australia |
| Sustainable agriculture -- Australia |
| Land use, Rural -- Australia -- History |
| Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- History |
| Fire management -- Australia |
| Added Entry - Personal Name |
Pascoe, Bruce, 1947- author. |
| Neale, Margo author of introduction, etc. |
