He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. Bruce Pascoe is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. His books include The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War and three prize-winning titles - Narrandera Shire, The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Weight (gm): 209 Author BiographyBill Gammage is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. Publication City, Country: Fisherman's Bend, Australiaĭimensions (cm): 19.6(H) x 13.3(L) x 1.7(W)209 Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.

Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. 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.

Country by Bill Gammage