Reddit reviews The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

Recently read this book, and the author describes how the entirety of Australia was described by the first colonists as looking like English gentleman's parks, with very abrupt differences between perfect almost manicured grassland and dense forest. The aboriginals made funnels to push kangaroos down into ambushes, and fields with crops that animals loved but were environmentally? kept away from, all made by using fire. Blew my mind.

A comprehensive yet accessible book on this subject is The Biggest Estate on Earth.