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The biggest estate on earth : how Aborigines made Australia / Bill Gammage.

"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...

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Main Author: Gammage, Bill, 1942-
Other Authors: Gammage, Bill
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011.
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Fire use.
Fire management > Australia > History.
Burning of land > Australia > History.
Australia > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Fire use > History.
Land use > Australia > Northern Territory.
Dreamtime (Aboriginal Australian mythology)
Burning of land > Environmental aspects.
Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture.
Fire ecology > Australia.
Land use > Australia > History.
Shifting cultivation > Australia.
Human ecology > Australia > History.
Aboriginal Australians > Agriculture > History.
Land use > Australia > Management > History.
Natural resources > Australia > Management > History.
Aboriginal Australians > History.
Land use > Australia.
Natural resources > Management.
Shifting cultivation.
Land use.
Human ecology.
Fire management.
Fire ecology.
Burning of land.
Aboriginal Australians.
Land use > Management.
Northern Territory.
Australia.
History.

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