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David HortonPublication Details
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Since Tim Flannery’s The Future Eaters, a new debate has developed about the fate of Australia’s fragile environment. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
- "Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent, The Pure State of Nature presents a passionate account of the Australian environment. The myths that abound in popular and scientific writing, the ‘theories’ and fancies about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast land mass, are subjected to scrutiny. In particular, the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. ‘Paved with good intentions’: Theories on Aborigines and the environment
- 2. ‘An unchanging people in an unchanging land’: Archaeology and the past
- 3. ‘A slow strangulation of the mind?’: Eating fish is wrong
- 4. ‘A people so inclined’: To farm or not to farm
- 5. ‘Opened up a landscape’: Firestick farming and the control burners
- 6. ‘The extinction of such pachyderms’: The great megafauna debate
- 7. ‘Most enlightened conservationists’
- 8. Convict’s dilemma
- 9. Ghosts
- 10. Theses nailed to the door
ISBN
- 1865081078
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