The Biggest Estate on Earth - How Aborigines made Australia

摘要

In a detailed and extensively researched book Professor Bill Gammage explains the landscape vegetation encountered by early explorers and settlers when they arrived in Australia. They were amazed to find large areas of open grassland with few trees, with patches or ribbons of thick country separating them, resembling "gentlemen's parks" in England. The Aborigines used these areas as hunting grounds and areas for harvesting yams and native grains. In western Victoria systems of canals had been dug and elaborate fish trap constructed along the Murray-Darling system. In the arid interior, dams and wells had been constructed.