地球上最大的庄园
The biggest estate on earth
Bill Gammage · 初版 2011 年
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“在整个澳大利亚，早期的欧洲人屡屡感叹这片土地宛如一座公园。大片的草地、小径、疏林和丰富的野生动物，让人联想起英格兰的乡村庄园。Bill Gammage 发现，这是因为土著居民管理土地的方式远比我们所意识到的更加系统和科学。十多年来，他细致研究了关于澳大利亚景观的文字与图像记录，揭示了一个极其复杂的土地管理系统，该系统利用火、本土植物的生命周期以及自然水流
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……生存方式”（就好像全世界不同地区的现代前“部落”有什么共通之处一样！）。人类文化之间的差异可以大到根本无法互相套用比较。去读读 Bill Gammage 的《The Biggest Estate on Earth》吧，讲的是澳大利亚原住民各部族。他们把整个澳大利亚当成一个整体的“庄园”来打理，利用多样化的……从极度丰富的资源中轻松获取充足的生活物资。
…living' (as if pre-modern 'tribes' in different parts of the world have much in common!). Human cultures can be so vastly different as to be truly incommensurable. Have a read of Bill Gammage's 'The Biggest Estate on Earth', about the Australian indigenous nations. They managed the entirely of Australia a single 'estate', providing ample, easily-obtained subsistence from a massive variety of sources, using a variety of…
Pascoe 的推荐我也附议。另外 Bill Gammage 的《The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia》也很让人大开眼界。
I'll second the Pascoe recommendation. Also Bill Gammage's The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia is eye opening
……至于袋鼠肉，在本地超市里你也买不到，出于文化以及某些宗教原因，并没有大规模饲养它们的产业。Pascoe 的《Dark Emu》或者 Gammage 的《Biggest Estate on Earth》（争议相对少一些）都是这方面的好书。
…for kangaroo meat you can't get these in the supermarket here either, there's no industry growing them on a large scale due to cultural and sometimes religious reasons. Pascoe's Dark Emu or Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth (less fought about) are good reads in that area.
……并在他们的领地内随时可以获取所需的动植物（无论年成好坏都能维持供应）。现代研究的通俗科普可以参阅 Bill Gammage 的《The Biggest Estate on Earth》和 Bruce Pascoe 的《Dark Emu》。不过这一领域的研究进展非常快，还有很多东西等待被挖掘。
…and fauna of their choice readily available in their country (and to keep them available throughout good & bad seasons). Popular accounts of the contemporary research can be found in Bill Gammage's The Biggest Estate on Earth and Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu. It's a fast-changing research landscape, though, with much left to be discovered.