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- catalog abstract ""Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent, The Pure State of Nature presents a passionate account of the Australian environment. The myths that abound in popular and scientific writing, the 'theories' and fancies about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast land mass, are subjected to scrutiny. In particular, the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11804301.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Spanning fifty thousand years and an entire continent, The Pure State of Nature presents a passionate account of the Australian environment. The myths that abound in popular and scientific writing, the 'theories' and fancies about the place of humans in the ecology of this vast land mass, are subjected to scrutiny. In particular, the author demolishes the widely accepted orthodoxy about the use of fire by Aborigines and their supposed part in the extinction of the Australian megafauna."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. 'Paved with good intentions': Theories on Aborigines and the environment -- 2. 'An unchanging people in an unchanging land': Archaeology and the past -- 3. 'A slow strangulation of the mind?': Eating fish is wrong -- 4. 'A people so inclined': To farm or not to farm -- 5. 'Opened up a landscape': Firestick farming and the control burners -- 6. 'The extinction of such pachyderms': The great megafauna debate -- 7. 'Most enlightened conservationists' -- 8. Convict's dilemma -- 9. Ghosts -- 10. Theses nailed to the door.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 192 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "1865081078".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin,".
- catalog spatial "Australia".
- catalog subject "Aboriginal Australians History.".
- catalog subject "Aboriginal Australians Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "GF801 .H67 2000".
- catalog subject "Human ecology Australia History.".
- catalog subject "Land settlement Australia History.".
- catalog subject "Land use Australia History.".
- catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on Australia History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. 'Paved with good intentions': Theories on Aborigines and the environment -- 2. 'An unchanging people in an unchanging land': Archaeology and the past -- 3. 'A slow strangulation of the mind?': Eating fish is wrong -- 4. 'A people so inclined': To farm or not to farm -- 5. 'Opened up a landscape': Firestick farming and the control burners -- 6. 'The extinction of such pachyderms': The great megafauna debate -- 7. 'Most enlightened conservationists' -- 8. Convict's dilemma -- 9. Ghosts -- 10. Theses nailed to the door.".
- catalog title "The pure state of nature : sacred cows, destructive myths and the environment / David Horton.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".