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The Biggest Estate on Earth

Bill Gammage

Was the Australia that Europeans first saw a wilderness, or a landscape that people had carefully managed for generations?

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Author
Bill Gammage

Why read it

  • You will learn to read a landscape for signs of human care, not just nature left alone
  • You will see how fire, used with skill, can shape grass, trees and animals to a plan
  • You will question the old assumption that the first people of Australia only took what nature gave

Who it is for

  • A gardener or farmer curious about land care
  • A reader interested in Australian history and Indigenous knowledge
  • Someone who cares about fire, forests and land management

Contents

  1. THANKS
  2. DEFINITIONS
  3. FOREWORD
  4. AUSTRALIA IN 1788
  5. INTRODUCTION: THE AUSTRALIAN ESTATE
  6. 1. CURIOUS LANDSCAPES
  7. 2. CANVAS OF A CONTINENT
  8. WHY WAS ABORIGINAL LAND MANAGEMENT POSSIBLE?
  9. 3. THE NATURE OF AUSTRALIA
  10. 4. HEAVEN ON EARTH
  11. 5. COUNTRY
  12. HOW WAS LAND MANAGED?
  13. 6. THE CLOSEST ALLY
  14. 7. ASSOCIATIONS
  15. 8. TEMPLATES
  16. 9. A CAPITAL TOUR
  17. 10. FARMS WITHOUT FENCES
  18. INVASION
  19. 11. BECOMING AUSTRALIAN
  20. APPENDIX 1: SCIENCE, HISTORY AND LANDSCAPE
  21. APPENDIX 2: CURRENT BOTANICAL NAMES FOR PLANTS NAMED WITH CAPITALS IN THE TEXT

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