"Young Dark Emu: A Truer History" By Bruce Pascoe
Young Dark Emu - A Truer History
Bruce Pascoe has collected a swathe of literary awards for Dark Emu and now he has brought together the research and compelling first-person accounts in a book for younger readers.
Using the accounts of early European explorers, colonists and farmers, Bruce Pascoe compellingly argues for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer label for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians. He allows the reader to see Australia as it was before Europeans arrived — a land of cultivated farming areas, productive fisheries, permanent homes, and an understanding of the environment and its natural resources that supported thriving villages across the continent. Young Dark Emu — A Truer History asks young readers to consider a different version of Australia’s history pre-European colonisation.
The highly-anticipated junior version of Bruce Pascoe’s multi-award-winning book
- ISBN: 9781925360844
- ISBN-10: 1925360849
- Audience: Children
- For Ages: 10+ years old
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number Of Pages: 80
- Published: 1st June 2019
- Publisher: Magabala Books
- Country of Publication: AU
- Dimensions (cm): 25 x 23.5 x 1.5
- Weight (kg): 0.64
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About Bruce Pascoe
About Bruce Pascoe
Bruce Pascoe is a highly acclaimed Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian author whose work has reshaped the landscape of Australian literature. Celebrated for both adult and young adult titles, Bruce brings history, culture and truth-telling to the forefront of his storytelling.
His groundbreaking book Dark Emu (Magabala Books, 2014) won the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year and sparked national conversation around Aboriginal agricultural history. Its young readers’ edition, Young Dark Emu, received the CBCA Eve Pownall Award in 2020. Bruce also received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for Fog a Dox (2012), and in 2018 was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
A passionate advocate for truth-telling, Bruce draws from his diverse life experiences—teacher, farmer, language researcher, editor—to create works that challenge and inspire. He lives on his farm in Gippsland, Victoria, continuing to write stories that illuminate and empower.
Bruce Pascoe is a highly acclaimed Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian author whose work has reshaped the landscape of Australian literature. Celebrated for both adult and young adult titles, Bruce brings history, culture and truth-telling to the forefront of his storytelling.
His groundbreaking book Dark Emu (Magabala Books, 2014) won the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year and sparked national conversation around Aboriginal agricultural history. Its young readers’ edition, Young Dark Emu, received the CBCA Eve Pownall Award in 2020. Bruce also received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for Fog a Dox (2012), and in 2018 was honoured with the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature.
A passionate advocate for truth-telling, Bruce draws from his diverse life experiences—teacher, farmer, language researcher, editor—to create works that challenge and inspire. He lives on his farm in Gippsland, Victoria, continuing to write stories that illuminate and empower.