Bitter Harvest by Peter O'Brien scarce, controversial Dark Emu

Language: English

Book Title: Bitter Harvest

Author: Peter O'Brien

UPC: 9780995368316

Bitter harvest: The Illusion of Aboriginal Agriculture in Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu

Peter O’Brien

A comprehensive appraisal of Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu. Pascoe postulates that, rather than being a nomadic hunter-gatherer society, Australian Aborigines were actually sedentary agriculturalists with ‘skills superior to those of the white colonisers who took their land and despoiled it’. Dark Emu has enjoyed extraordinary public and critical acclaim, winning Premier’s literary awards in New South Wales and named Book of the Year. Professor Marcia Langton called it ‘the most important book on Australia’. Its ideas have already been taken up in school texts and the ABC is producing a documentary series about it