Dark Emu

'Dark Emu ... is revolutionary, the most important book published in Australia by any writer in this or any other century.'

Vorwort

History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.

Autorentext

Bruce Pascoe lives in Australia and has a Bunurong, Tasmanian, and Yuin heritage. Dark Emu won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

Bruce is currently working on two films for ABC TV and a novel.

Klappentext

Trade paperback. The pre-settler agricultural practices of Aboriginal people across the Australian landmass are explored by prominent Aboriginal writer Bruce Pascoe, arguing that the myth of indigenous Australians as strictly hunter-gatherers was a ploy to justify dispossession.