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Currowan: the story of fire and a community during Australia's worst summer Bronwyn Adcock.

Currowan: the story of fire and a community during Australia's worst summer Bronwyn Adcock.
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ISBN 9781787829374
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Author Adcock, Bronwyn
Title Currowan : the story of fire and a community during Australia's worst summer / Bronwyn Adcock.
Edition Large print
Publication Details Leicester:
2022. Black Inc., Aurora,
©2022.
Collation 276 pages : : maps ; ; 24 cm. ;
Abstract/Summary Currowan is the gripping account of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales in 2019-20. Ignited by a lightning strike near the Currowan state forest and burning for seventy-four days across nearly 500,000 hectares, it was among the largest and most ferocious infernos of Australia's Black Summer. Journalist Bronwyn Adcock fled the fire with her children. Her husband, fighting at the front, rang with a plea for help before his phone went dead, leaving her to fear: will he make it out alive? In Currowan, Bronwyn tells her story, and those of many others: what they experienced, saw, thought and felt. The pacy, immersive reportage is braided with much larger themes - what we know about how fire behaves, how that is changing due to climate change, and how communities can cope with natural disaster and prepare themselves for an increasingly dangerous future. Currowan is about tragedy, survival and the power of community. It is the story of a fire, and of a nation in the grip of an intensifying crisis we must all work together to solve.
Subject Adcock, Bronwyn
Wildfires -- New South Wales -- Currowan
Wildfires -- Australia -- New South Wales -- Anecdotes
Forest fires -- Australia -- New South Wales
Fire ecology -- Australia
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- 21st century
Biography
Nonfiction
Large type books
Biographies
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