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.