Kinglake-350

Kinglake-350
Author :
Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 285
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781921834738
ISBN-13 : 1921834730
Rating : 4/5 (730 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kinglake-350 by : Adrian Hyland

Download or read book Kinglake-350 written by Adrian Hyland and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted Prime Minister's Award and Age Book of the Year Awards, 2012 Black Saturday. February 7, 2009. Roger Wood is the cop on duty at Kinglake when the most devastating fire in the nation's history roars through the ranges onto his beat. His task is to defend his town against the colossus that threatens to destroy it. And, over the course of one nightmarish day, that is what he will do. Even at the risk of his own life. Even after he receives the dreadful phone call telling him his own wife and kids are caught on the front line of the inferno. Adrian Hyland is the award-winning author of Diamond Dove and Gunshot Road. He lives in St Andrews, north-east of Melbourne, and teaches at LaTrobe University. 'A masterpiece of storytelling...The central characters in this special book emerge as Victoria Cross heroes in the heart of a bush community.' Kerry O'Brien 'What sets Kinglake-350 apart is its strong, agile storytelling - particularly Hyland's skill for weaving together small, telling details with big-picture concerns like climate change, weather pattern complexity, the failings of fire management policy and Australia's historical relationship with fire...' Meg Mundell, Readings 'Every Australian, both rural and urban, should read this book. Adrian Hyland pulls no punches in describing the harrowing consequences of living on the planet's driest and most fire-prone continent, and his account of the disastrous Black Saturday fires is a story of courage, dread and fallibility that will never leave you.' Cate Kennedy 'I've been waiting for a writer to look Black Saturday in the eye ever since the flames died down and, finally, Adrian Hyland's done it. In this compelling and moving book, Hyland has captured the character of a town caught, quite literally, in a fireball.' Anna Krien 'Kinglake-350 is about more than Black Saturday. It's about families and communities, the vital nature of ecology and geology; it's about the genesis of life itself. And while there are too many deaths in this saddest of tales, for the lucky ones the outcome was redemption.' Lincoln Hall 'Adrian Hyland has found a path through the smoke and confusion to produce an informed account that brings tears to the eyes of the reader. He has woven a selection of experiences into a seamless and gripping narrative that shows the courage, uncertainty, tragedy and stupidity of that day. Although the causes and lessons of the fire were explored in the report by the royal commission, this book will be more widely read. And deservedly so.' Age Book of the Year ‘Terrifying and moving... Kinglake-350 leaves us with a visceral sense of a harrowing event.’ Australian ‘Gripping and deeply moving.’ Adelaide Advertiser ‘As in the best fiction these characters will stay with you.’ Daily Telegraph


Kinglake-350 Related Books

Kinglake-350
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Adrian Hyland
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-01 - Publisher: Text Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shortlisted Prime Minister's Award and Age Book of the Year Awards, 2012 Black Saturday. February 7, 2009. Roger Wood is the cop on duty at Kinglake when the mo
Living with Fire
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Christine Hansen
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Living with Fire historians Tom Griffiths and Christine Hansen trace both the history of fire in the region and the human history of the Steels Creek valley
Report
Language: en
Pages: 670
Authors: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1920 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The British Military Revolution of the 19th Century
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Daniel R. LeClair
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-31 - Publisher: McFarland

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

 From the Crimean War through the Second Boer War, the British Empire sought to solve the "Great Gun Question"--to harness improvements to ordnance, small ar
Handbook of Global Media Ethics
Language: en
Pages: 1450
Authors: Stephen J.A. Ward
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-02 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This handbook is one of the first comprehensive research and teaching tools for the developing area of global media ethics. The advent of new media that is glob