Young Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

Young Dark Emu brings together Bruce Pascoe's research and compelling first person accounts in a book for younger readers.

Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu — A Truer History, asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s history pre-European colonisation.

Ages 10+

80 pages