Bruce Pascoe’s Black Duck is a ‘healing and necessary’ account of a year on his farm, following a difficult decade after Dark Emu
- Written by: Julienne van Loon, Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
Bruce PascoeMagabalaBruce Pascoe is best known for his natural history, Dark Emu, which argues that systems of pre-colonial food production and land management in Australia have been dramatically understated. At last count, the book had sold at least 360,000 copies of the original edition – and many more in the form of adaptations,...
