Young Dark Emu

Bruce Pascoe, acclaimed for Dark Emu, presents a book for younger readers that challenges the hunter-gatherer label assigned to pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. Drawing from accounts of early European explorers, colonists, and farmers, Pascoe highlights Australia’s pre-European arrival—a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an ecological understanding supporting thriving villages. Young Dark Emu – A Truer History prompts young readers to reconsider Australia’s pre-colonial past, offering a different perspective on its history before European colonization.

By: Bruce Pascoe

Cover: Hard

Pages: 64

Blurb:

Bruce Pascoe uses the diaries of early explorers and colonists to show us the Australia where Aboriginal people did build houses, did build dams and wells, and, productively, did farm the land.