Burn: The Epic Story Of The Bushfire In Australia by Paul Collins (9781741750539)

Burn: The Epic Story Of The Bushfire In Australia

Dry heat and hot, dry winds worked upon a land already dry, to suck from it the last, least drop of moisture. Men who had lived their lives in the bush went their ways in the shadow of dread expectancy. But though they felt the imminence of danger they could not tell that it was to be far greater than they could imagine. They had not lived long enough.'Report of the Royal Commission into the Bush Fires of January 1939With 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. Drawing on the 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 that took many lives and destroyed thousands of hectares in Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania and the Canberra inferno of 2003 Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushfire in Australia.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.

ISBN: 9781741750539

Category: General

Format: Hardback

Publication Date: 2006-10-01

Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN

Country of origin: AUS

Pages: xx, 432

Weight: 268g

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