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Humans first settled the islands of Australia, New Zealand, New Caledonia, and New Guinea some sixty millennia ago, and as they had elsewhere across the globe, immediately began altering the environment by hunting and trapping animals and gathering fruits and vegetables. In this illustrated... read more
First Sentence
To write a history of Australia without reference to its geographic neighbours would be as senseless and uninformative as to tell the story of Antony without Cleopatra, of Romeo without Juliet.
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- Tim F. Flannery (Author)
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