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The Coal Face: Penguin Special

2015-03-25 Nature
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Release : 2015-03-25
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 988/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Coal Face: Penguin Special by : Tom Doig

Download or read book The Coal Face: Penguin Special written by Tom Doig. This book was released on 2015-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The smoke got thicker and darker and then it seemed to be coming from everywhere, swirling around until it blanketed the entire town . . .' On 9 February 2014 a fire took hold in Victoria's Hazelwood coal mine next to Morwell and burned for one and a half months. As the air filled with toxic smoke and ash, residents of the Latrobe Valley became ill, afraid – and angry. Up against an unresponsive corporation and an indifferent government, the community banded together, turning tragedy into a political fight. Tom Doig reveals the decades of decisions that led to the fire, and gives an intimate account of the first moments of the blaze and the dark weeks that followed. The Coal Face is a gripping and immediate report of one of the worst environmental and public health disasters in Australian history.

Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins

2009-06-29 Fiction
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Release : 2009-06-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 458/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by : Robert Drewe

Download or read book Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins written by Robert Drewe. This book was released on 2009-06-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set among the surf and sandhills of the Australian beach – and the tidal changes of three generations of the Lang family – The Bodysurfers is an Australian classic. A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.

Hazelwood

2019 Air
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Release : 2019
Genre : Air
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Book Rating : 349/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Hazelwood by : Tom Doig

Download or read book Hazelwood written by Tom Doig. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and immediate account of one of the worst disasters in Australian history. Early in the afternoon of 9 February 2014, during the worst drought and heatwave south-eastern Australia had experienced in over a century, two separate bushfires raged towards the massive Hazelwood open-pit brown-coal mine, near Morwell in the Latrobe Valley. The fires overwhelmed local fire-fighting efforts and sent a skyful of embers sailing onto millions of square metres of exposed, highly flammable brown coal. Twelve hours later, the mine was ablaze. The Hazelwood mine fire burned out of control for 45 days. As the air filled with toxic smoke and ash, residents of the Latrobe Valley became ill, afraid - and angry. Up against an unresponsive corporation and an indifferent government, the community banded together, turning tragedy into a political fight. In Hazelwood, Tom Doig reveals the decades of decisions that led to the fire, and gives an intimate account of the first moments of the blaze and the dark months that followed. This is a gripping and immediate report of one of the worst environmental and public health disasters in Australian history.

Moron to Moron

2013 Travel
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Release : 2013
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Moron to Moron by : Tom Doig

Download or read book Moron to Moron written by Tom Doig. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Armed with spandex unitards, Chinese steel-frame mountain bikes, unidentifiable meat product and a woefully inadequate phrasebook, these two morons blunder into some of the world's most remote and beautiful wilderness--and triumph. Sort of. For 23 brutalising days--two days longer than the Tour de France--Tom and Tama slog their way over muddy mountains and across desolate steppes, all the time struggling to avoid Mongolia's legendary hospitality. This hilarious, thoroughly shonky odyssey overflows with sweat, miscommunication and torrents of Chinggis Khaan vodka--named after Genghis Khan, the greatest warrior who ever lived. Moron to Moron is a travel book like none other. It has it all: pleasure, pain, heartache, heartburn and the dried fermented milk of a horse.

First World War Poetry

1997-02-01 Poetry
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Release : 1997-02-01
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 090/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis First World War Poetry by : Jon Silkin

Download or read book First World War Poetry written by Jon Silkin. This book was released on 1997-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of poetry written during World War I. In the introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The book includes work by Sassoon, Owen, Blunden, Rosenberg, Hardy and Lawrence.

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