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A review by gemmaduds
Fire Country by Victor Steffensen
3.0
Victor Steffenson is an Indigenous Australian writer and filmmaker, who applies traditional values (particularly of fire management) in contemporary Australia - passing on the wisdom that he has learned from the elders of the Laura Aboriginal community in the process.
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‘Fire Country’ is a straightforward account of Steffenson’s knowledge and experience of traditional fire management practices, and the ways in which it is endlessly beneficial to Australian wildlife over the modern, government backed methods. He has often clashed with those who don’t understand the traditional slow and controlled methods of managing country, and is desperate to educate and bring together communities.
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A really interesting read; short and eye opening - with no bells and whistles - Steffenson tells it as he sees it.
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A book for anybody interested in Australia, or the practice of protecting wildlife through fire management. It’s another of those books that will probably never be picked up by the very people that really need to read it!
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‘Fire Country’ is a straightforward account of Steffenson’s knowledge and experience of traditional fire management practices, and the ways in which it is endlessly beneficial to Australian wildlife over the modern, government backed methods. He has often clashed with those who don’t understand the traditional slow and controlled methods of managing country, and is desperate to educate and bring together communities.
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A really interesting read; short and eye opening - with no bells and whistles - Steffenson tells it as he sees it.
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A book for anybody interested in Australia, or the practice of protecting wildlife through fire management. It’s another of those books that will probably never be picked up by the very people that really need to read it!