{"product_id":"country","title":"First Knowledges: Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, botany, astronomy and law, this six-book series brings together two very different ways of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The third book focuses on land and fire management.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCountry: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill Gammage\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. His books include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and three prize-winning titles - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNarrandera Shire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruce Pascoe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewhich re-examines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639776854305,"sku":"9781760761554","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9781760761554.jpg?v=1721890759","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/country","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}