Dark Emu cover art

Dark Emu

Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe
Narrated by: Bruce Pascoe
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £19.99

Buy Now for £19.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

A completely accessible, compelling and riveting account of pre-invasion Aboriginal agricultural systems.

Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests that systems of food production and land management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia's past is required.

©2014 Bruce Pascoe (P)2017 Bolinda audio Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Oceania Physics Politics & Government Science United States World

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Children of the Night cover art
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia cover art
Albion's Seed cover art
Against the Grain cover art
The Statues That Walked cover art
Cornerstones cover art
To You We Shall Return cover art
Forget Me Not cover art
Rooted cover art
Bison and People on the North American Great Plains cover art
The Suppressed History of America cover art
Braiding Sweetgrass cover art
Unbound cover art
The Divine Design cover art
The Book of Secrets cover art
Ravenous cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
finally a listen which treats history as fact not mystery. will download other titles.

great listen

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Absolutely brilliant, I'm really glad I listened to this book. It confirmed alot of what I suspected about Australia and its colonisation

everything

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wow! Thank you for looking, finding out and sharing all this information. I’m learning the truth about the world and this has to be up there on info to share in schools.

A must read listen and know

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was very refreshing hearing the accounts and modern science behind the way the aborigines farmed and cared for their land in ingenious and natural ways. Having travelled Australia and driving through the centre which looked very desolate this book offers a different perspective.

Perhaps the most shocking take away from this book is that Australia, before cattle, sheep and western agricultural practices became the norm, Australia was a lush country with some areas being compared to some of the UK's finest estates with lush vegetation and forest.

Let's hope modern scientific trials can continue and unlock the secrets the indigenous population already knew through their shared knowledge of how to look after and work with the land, to make it productive and healthy once more.

Moving away from ingnorance

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Loved this book and was shocked by the content. The narrative that indigenous Australians were simple hunter-gatherers has got to be exposed more widely for the lie that it is. A must read for all non-indigenous Australians!

A Must Read!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
a must read, should that be hear? One of those titles that makes one think, deeply.

a gift of knowledge from my Son

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I wept with this book. what we are doing to Mumma Earth is unforgivable. who the hell do we think we are. I've been reading this beautiful book whilst working in Australia and it's completely changed how I see this beautiful land and what's been done to it. the little people the world over need to rise again and save us before it's too late. the brutes have screwed it all up.

life changing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Paints an amazing picture, and all based on factual historical accounts. I will now view the landscape through another lens.

Eye opening and a must have

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
insightful and thorough. beautifully brings the untold history of Australian first nation peoples to light.

so many examples of civilisation and careful stewardship of a continent

a lesson to all who care for- or about the land?

Essential listening for all UK and Aussie people

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Fantastic and well written, made for an easy listen. Bruce presents unknown (to me) knowledge that made for an insightful and interesting book.

Interesting overview

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews