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

ISBN-13: 9780367719883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 208 str.

David Horton

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.