Dark Emu - Black Seeds: Agriculture or Accident?

Obviously I put this on hold at my library because of the controversy surrounding Pascoe earlier this year and the general culture wars over this book since its release. I listened to the audio version, so I can't evaluate things like if it has citations, or the quality of Pascoe's sources.

I had no issue with the book itself, although it greatly annoyed me when Pascoe used the same word twice in a sentence (I can't think of any without the text to refer to, but sentences like “the area was peopled with people from...”). He did stray into romanticising the Indigenous ‘way of life' towards the end.

Overall, it doesn't suck. I can't see anything controversial in here. Pascoe continually highlights that more research into Australia's Indigenous history needs to be funded and he is not wrong.

However, I can absolutely urge authors to put aside some money and pay a professional to narrate their monograph, if they aren't practised performers.