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Australian Short Stories: No 66 by Bruce Pascoe (Editor); Lyn Harwood (Editor)
Category: Biography
A collection of short stories by Australian writers
Australian Short Stories No 67 by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Biography
This is the final issue of Australian Short Stories quarterly magazine to be produced by Bruce Pascoe and Lyn Harwood. We hope an institution or individual will keep it going so that new Australian talent can be showcased and encouraged. The magazine as always has a mixture of men and women, Aboriginal ...Show more
Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Biography
'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and responsibility of disrupting Australia's history. When Dark Emu was adopted by Australia like a new anthem, Bruce ...Show more
Bloke by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Fiction
Jim Bloke's your quintessential Aussie, sort of. Being adopted, he's done it tough in the past, both at the hands of women and the law. The start of this novel finds Bloke in a job fishing for abalone. Only problem is, the abalone industy is crookeder than your average politician, and Bloke makes the pe ...Show more
Bloke by Pascoe Bruce
Category: Fiction
The novel's about a bloke called Bloke but it's the women who explain manhood and his identity. A disappointed man always heads bush but never knows what to expect.The fishing inductry tries to be straight but never quite manages and Bloke tries fitting into it with the same result. He's looking for him ...Show more
Continent Aflame - Responses to an Australian Catastrophe by Pat Anderson (Editor); Alexis Wright; Ross Garnaut; Bill Gammage; Susan Norrie (Artist); Catherine Larkins (Artist); Freya Mathews; Guy Rundle; Raymond Gaita; Paul James (Editor); Paul Komesaroff (Editor); Sally Gardner (Editor); Bruce Pascoe
Category: Science
"Continent Aflame: Responses to an Australian Catastrophe" assembles multiple responses to the Australian bushfires crisis of 2019-20. The moral imperative generated by the damaged continent, the unprecedented scale of the disaster, compels this response. Contributors demonstrate that the continent is a ...Show more
Convincing Ground: Learning to Fall in Love with your Country by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Australian History
A wide-ranging, personal and powerful work that resonates with historical and contemporary Australian debates about identity, dispossession, memory, and community. Ranging across the national contemporary political stage, this book critiques the great Australian silence when it comes to dealing respec ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
Category: Australian History | Series: First Knowledges
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. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Australian History
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 t ...Show more
Dark Emu - Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
Category: History
History has portrayed Australia's First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong. In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and ...Show more
Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, New Edition LARGE PRINT by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Large Print
'Dark Emu injects a profound authenticity into the conversation about how we Australians understand our continent ... [It is] essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Australia once was, or what it might yet be if we heed the lessons of long and sophisticated human occupation.' Judges f ...Show more
Dark Emu Black Seeds Agriculture or Accident? by Bruce Pascoe
Category: Australian History
Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. The evidence insists that Aboriginal people right across the continent were using domesticated plants, sowing, harvesting, irrigating and storing - behaviors inconsistent with the ...Show more