The Pure State of Nature
Sacred cows, destructive myths and the environment
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-86508-107-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Australia
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
271 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86508-107-6 (9781865081076)
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Person
Dr. David Horton has had four successful professional careers as, in turn, biologist, archaeologist, publisher and farmer. He has worked in the field for over twenty-five years and has published widely in academic literature.
Content
Foreword
Acknowledgments
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 Convicts dilemma
9 Ghosts
10 Theses nailed to the door
Notes
Index