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Currowan : the story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer / Bronwyn Adcock ; maps by Adam Laver.

Currowan : the story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer / Bronwyn Adcock ; maps by Adam Laver.
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ISBN 9781760642747
Author Adcock, Bronwyn (author)
Title Currowan : the story of a fire and a community during Australia's worst summer / Bronwyn Adcock ; maps by Adam Laver.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc., [2021]
©2021.
Description 276 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Summary An insider's account of surviving one of Australia's worst bushfires, and how we live with fire in a climate-changed world. 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.
Subjects Adcock, Bronwyn
Natural disasters -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
Natural disasters -- New South Wales -- Currowan
Natural disasters -- New South Wales
Natural disasters -- Social aspects -- Australia
Disaster victims -- Australia
Wildfires -- Australia -- Anecdotes
Wildfires -- Australia
Wildfires -- New South Wales -- Currowan
Wildfires -- New South Wales
Forest fires -- New South Wales -- Currowan
Forest fires -- New South Wales
Forest fires -- Australia -- History
Currowan (N.S.W.) -- History
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Laver, Adam (cartographer)
Call number 2021.255
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