Country Future Fire Future Farming Bruce Pascoe Bill Gammage by Bruce Pascoe; Bill Gammage 9781760762155, 1760762156 instant download after payment.

For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental & economic solutions. Bill Gammage & Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation & firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed & stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country & 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 & living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural & land-care techniques of First Nations peoples & shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.

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After many years teaching history at the universities of Papua New Guinea and Adelaide, Bill Gammage is now a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Deputy Chair of the National Museum of Australia. He has edited Australians: A Bicentennial History, 1938 and written The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1935-1939 and an acclaimed history of Australian soldiers in the Great War, The Broken Years.