Great Australian Bushfire Stories

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2008
Edition: First Edition

Description: 216 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This Book Is A Callection Of Remarkable Tales From All Around Australia That Tell Of Our Countrys Fiercest Natural Phenomenon: The Bushfire.

Publishers Description: the biggest cleared area was my vegetable patch ... I ran and lay down and made a little tent over myself. I thought it would preserve the last of the oxygen. Under the blanket I could hear explosions - the gas bottles from the houses further up, and I could just imagine all my neighbours dead up the road. the wind was roaring, the trees cracking: an awful lot of noise ... I thought I wasnt going to survive. Peter Luke, Gaffneys Creek, Victoria the sky got darker again ... I started to think about the next days newspaper headlines: "Stupid thirty-eight-weeks pregnant woman drives into fire with toddler." Sonia Stanton, Canberra I looked down into where the houses were totally surrounded by a sea of flame and thought, well, thats it, shes all over. Everybody will be killed down there. John Hyles, Namadgi Ranges GREAt AUStRALIAN BUSHFIRE StORIES is a collection of remarkable tales from all around Australia that tell of our countrys fiercest natural phenomenon: the bushfire. Farmers, landowners, firefighters and city dwellers share with ABC journalist Ian Mannix their experiences of fires: preparing for them, fighting them, and the heartbreak task of mopping up when even their best efforts failed. Some stories are funny, some tragic, many courageous, but all are a testimony to the ingenuity and grit of human beings as they fight to save their homes, their towns and, in some cases, their lives.

ISBN: 9780733323973