rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: biggest estate on earth
    sub title: how Aborigines made Australia
  name:
    name part: Gammage, Bill.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xna
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiii, 434 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm.
  abstract: "Across Australia, early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park. With extensive grassy patches and pathways, open woodlands and abundant wildlife, it evoked a country estate in England. Bill Gammage has discovered this was because Aboriginal people managed the land in a far more systematic and scientific fashion than we have ever realised. For over a decade he has examined written and visual records of the Australian landscape. He has uncovered an extraordinarily complex system of land management using fire, the life cycles of native plants, and the natural flow of water to ensure plentiful wildlife and plant foods throughout the year. We know Aboriginal people spent far less time and effort than Europeans in securing food and shelter ... . With details of land-management strategies from around Australia, The biggest estate on earth rewrites the history of this continent, with huge implications for us today."--Dust cover.
  note: Bill Gammage.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-415) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: u-at---
  subject:
    topic: Aboriginal Australians
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Land use
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Management
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Natural resources
    geographic: Australia
    topic: Management
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Australia
    topic: History
  classification: DU124.A46 G36 2011
  classification: 305.89915
  identifier: 9781742377483
  identifier: 1742377483
  identifier: 2011514487
  record info:
    record content source: ANL
    record creation date: 111109
    record change date: 20151202170919.0
    record identifier: in00002759636
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng