|
|
Title: |
Mallee Country |
| Sub-title: |
Land, People, History |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes |
| ISBN10-13: |
1925523128 : 9781925523126 |
| Illustrations: |
50 illus |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - November 2019 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
|
| Subjects: |
Australasian & Pacific history |
| Mallee Country tells the compelling history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government-backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinityâ as well as the vagaries of international marketsâ and became some of Australiaâ s most resilient agriculturalists. In mallee country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure. Mallee Country reveals how land and people shape each other. It explains how a landscape once derided by settlers as a â howling wildernessâ covered in â dismal scrubâ became home to people who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. It is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope. |
|
|
Item added to 
.png "Click here for catalogues")
