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9781865081076

The Pure State of Nature: Sacred Cows, Destructive Myths and the Environment

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    9781865081076

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    1865081078

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Paul & Co Pub Consortium
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Summary

Since Tim Flannery's The Future Eaters , a new debate has developed about the fate of Australia's fragile environment. This book provides a provocative, alternative account of the history of the Australian environment, and the lessons we can learn for conservation in the new millennium

Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgements xii
`Paved with good intentions': Theories on Aborigines and the environment
1(19)
`An unchanging people in an unchanging land': Archaeology and the past
20(19)
`A slow strangulation of the mind?': eating fish is wrong
39(14)
`A people so inclined':To farm or not to farm
53(17)
`Opened up a landscape': Firestick farming and the control burners
70(32)
`The extinction of such pachyderms': The great megafauna debate
102(25)
`Most enlightened conservationists'
127(14)
Convict's dilemma
141(17)
Ghosts
158(11)
Theses nailed to the door
169(8)
Notes 177(9)
Index 186

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