Publisher's Synopsis
This book covers some 99 per cent of Australia's human history and examines the interaction between human settlement,the landscape and flora and fauna. It attempts to present an aboriginal perspective of their past in addition to the European scientific viewpoint. Its thesis is that Australian prehistory is of world importance for the understanding of human culture. It also traces the "discovery" of aboriginal Australia by Europeans since the seventeenth century and their impact upon European imagination. It concludes with reflections on the aboriginal discovery of their own past.
