Bill Gammage: The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia


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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, it evoked a country estate in England. 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. For over a decade, Gammage has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire and the life cycles of native plants to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter, and now we know how they did it. With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The Biggest Estate on Earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today. Once Aboriginal people were no longer able to tend their country, it became overgrown and vulnerable to the hugely damaging bushfires we now experience. And what we think of as virgin bush in a national park is nothing of the kind.

Though bringing people to new birth in Christ through evangelism is essential, says Eugene Peterson, isn't "growth" in Christ equally essential? Yet the American church by and large does not treat Christian maturity and character formation with much urgency. The book is illustrated with over 75 colour photographs from leading children's fashion photographer Ulla Nyeman. In the middle of the countryside there are three farms, all in a row. Everybody calls them Noisy Village because the children who live there are very noisy indeed! Join the adventures of Lisa and her friends, where walking home from school turns into a pirate party looking for treasure, a trip to the local shoemaker becomes a mission to save one lonely dog from his grumpy owner, and a fishing trip ends with a night under the The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia download PDF stars. A charming collection of stories from one of the world's best-loved children's authors.


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Author: Bill Gammage
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2013
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication Country: St Leonards, Australia
Language: English
ISBN: 9781743311325
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