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Gammage, Bill und Bruce Pascoe: Country. Future Fire, Future Farming, Thames & Hudson, Port Melbourne 2021, ISBN 9781760761554

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Table of Contents

Margo Neale: First Knowledges: An Introduction -1-

Bill Gammage & Bruce Pescoe: Personal Perspectives -9-

Bruce Pescoe: Land Care -20-

Bruce Pescoe: Cultivating Country -36-

Bruce Pescoe: Future Farming -67-

Bill Gammage: Country -75-

Bill Gammage: An Ancient Alliance -87-

Bill Gammage: Holding the Spark -106-

Bill Gammage: 1788 Fire Notes -128-

Bill Gammage: Babes in the Wood -133-

Bill Gammage: Poor Fella My Country -152-

Bruce Pescoe: How We Might Love Mother Earth More -169-

Acknowledgements -186-

Image Credits -187-

Notes -189-

Further Reading -202-

Index -203-

Cover Text

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. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Grammage and Bruce Pescoe 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 agriculture and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.