This vivid novel is the fifth in Bruce Pascoe's series which charts personal histories of the first Australians. Caleb Mathews is captain of a sealing ship in Bass Strait. His relationships with two women, one white, one black, are both ambiguous and brutal. The consequences still haunt the country and live on in the survivors.

Ocean

Literature & Fiction

Bruce Pascoe

Literary

Bruce Sims

Landscape as Protagonist

Arts & Photography

Dan Pearson

U. P.

Marjetica Potrc

Cameron Allan McKean

Katherine Sundermann

Tanya Patrick

Thomas Doxiadis

History & Criticism

Molonglo

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the "hunter-gatherer" tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession.
Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required.

Dark Emu

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Bolinda Audio

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.\nFor millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions.\nBill 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.\nCountry: 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.

Country

Science & Math

Bill, Gammage

Nature & Ecology

Thames & Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd

Black Duck

Memoirs

Young Dark Emu

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing – behaviours inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag. Gerritsen and Gammage in their latest books support this premise but Pascoe takes this further and challenges the hunter-gatherer tag as a convenient lie. Almost all the evidence comes from the records and diaries of the Australian explorers, impeccable sources.

Magabala Books

Griffith Review 60: First Things First

Sandra Phillips

Michael, Gordon

ALEXIS WRIGHT

Noel Pearson

Stan Grant

Tony Birch

Melissa Lucashenko

Megan Davis

Marsha Langton

The Text Publishing Company

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