Bruce Pascoe lives in Australia and has a Bunurong, Tasmanian, and Yuin heritage. Dark Emu won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer's Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Bruce is currently working on two films for ABC TV and a novel.
"Australia's education system tended to emphasize the struggle
and pluck of settlers. Dark Emu shifted the gaze, pointing
to peaceful towns and well-tended land devastated by European
aggression and cattle grazing. In a nation of 25 million people,
the book has sold more than 260,000 copies."
--Damien Cave, New York Times "[A] brisk and lucidly written
account...This is an important and deeply researched
reinterpretation of Australian history and a stark warning about
the danger of accepting received wisdom at face value." STARRED
REVIEW
--Publishers Weekly "Unputdownable."
--Darina Allen, Irish Examiner "The truth-telling must go
on."
--Stephen Fitzpatrick, The Australian "[A]n important book
that advances a powerful argument for re-evaluating the
sophistication of Aboriginal peoples' economic and socio-political
livelihoods, and calls for Australia to embrace the complexity,
sophistication and innovative skills of Indigenous people into its
concept of itself as a nation."
--Aboriginal History
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