First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe

First Knowledges Country

Future Fire, Future Farming

By: Bruce Pascoe, Bill Gammage, Margo Ngawa Neale (Editor)

Paperback | 26 October 2021

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The First Knowledges series offers an introduction to Indigenous knowledges in vital areas and their application to the present day and the future. Exploring practices such as architecture and design, land management, botany, astronomy and innovation, this six-book series brings together two very different ways

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. of understanding the natural world: one ancient, the other modern. The third book focuses on land and fire management.


For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions.

Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today.

Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.

About the Authors

Bill Gammage is a historian at the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. His books include The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War and three prize-winning titles - Narrandera Shire, The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939 and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia.

Bruce Pascoe is an Aboriginal Australian writer of literary fiction, non-fiction, poetry, essays and children's literature. He is the enterprise professor in Indigenous Agriculture at the University of Melbourne. He is best known for his work Dark Emu: Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident? which re-examines colonial accounts of Aboriginal people in Australia and cites evidence of pre-colonial agriculture, engineering and building construction by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

First Knowledges

First Knowledges Design : Building on Country - Alison Page
First Knowledges Astronomy : Sky Country - Karlie Noon

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First Knowledges Plants : Past, Present and Future - Zena Cumpston
Songlines : Power and Promise - Margo Neale

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First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe
First Knowledges Law : The Way of the Ancestors - Marcia Langton
First Knowledges Innovation : Knowledge and Ingenuity - Ian J McNiven

Regenerative Agriculture

Call of the Reed Warbler : Revised Edition - Charles Massy

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First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe
Natural Farming : a Practical Guide - Pat Coleby

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Growing a Revolution : Bringing Our Soil Back to Life - David R. Montgomery
The Wooleen Way : Renewing an Australian Resource - David Pollock

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Dirt : The Erosion of Civilizations - David R. Montgomery

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Bushfire Issues: Safety, Management and Ecology

First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe
A Fire Inside : The Power of the Human Help Reflex - Matthew Abbott
Kinglake-350 - Adrian Hyland

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The Arsonist : A Mind on Fire - Chloe Hooper

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Fire : A Brief History: 2nd Edition - Stephen J. Pyne

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First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe
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Ocean - Bruce Pascoe

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Convincing Ground : Learning to Love Your Country - Bruce Pascoe
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Salt : Selected Stories and Essays - Bruce Pascoe

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First Knowledges Plants : Past, Present and Future - Zena Cumpston
Songlines : Power and Promise - Margo Neale

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