Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu opens an untold perspective on Aboriginal agriculture and aquaculture using the journals of early European explorers and settlers. He reveals their complex understanding of the landscape and climate to produce large scale crops of grains, build towns that supported very large populations. Sophisticated fish traps and water storage, yam production, harvested grains stoops stretching for miles all described by preeminent explorers he uses as evidence of rich cultures. Informative, illuminating, factually based rewriting of history that has been forgotten.... every Australian should read it.