![]() ![]() His shift from writing full time to buying a farm he’s named Yumburra (Yuin for “black duck”) near Mallacoota, eastern Victoria, flows from his best-known work, published in 2014: Dark Emu: Black seeds: agriculture or accident? (A second edition, Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture was published four years later.) He’s a descendant of Aboriginal Australians from the Yuin, Bunurong and Palawa (Tasmanian) Peoples, as well colonial Europeans, notably the Cornish. Pascoe was born in Melbourne just after World War II one could argue that he qualifies as a prototype modern Australian. “But the fact that I was the age I am – I certainly didn’t want to do it.” “I’ve been a farmer before, and so it wasn’t such a huge decision,” he says. ![]() W riter Bruce Pascoe is an unlikely but committed late-life convert to agricultural science, even though his reasons to take up the plough – not quite literally – are clear. ![]()
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