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The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia:
with an introduction on the Black Saturday fires
With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening
hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter
where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in this
country. In Burn, Paul Collins tells the epic story of
bushifire in Australia, drawing on accounts of the most devastating
conflagrations in Australia's European history - from the 1851 Black
Thursday fire (which burnt out one quarter of Victoria), to the 1939
Black Friday fires (which took many lives and destroyed thousands of
hectares in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and
Tasmania) the Canberra inferno of 2003, and Black Saturday of
February 2009.
Frightening, compelling, vivid, and provocative, Burn reveals
the stories of heroism, stupidity, political incompetence, and
environmental vandalism. This is the grand narrative of bushfire in
Australia, the most fire-prone land on Earth.
Soft cover. 205mm X 150mm. 420 pages. (Revised edition 2009). Mainly
text. Some B&W photographs. ISBN 9781921640186. RRP $42.95. |
