Summary
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 flamma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143793342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143793349 |
| Author: | Tom Doig |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 404g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 153mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Tom Doig
Tom Doig has written for Guardian Australia, The Big Issue, Crikey, New Matilda and Voiceworks. Tom’s second book, The Coal Face, was Joint-Winner of the 2015 Oral History Victoria Education Innovation Award. His first book, Moron to Moron, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2013. Hazelwood was longlisted for the 2020 Walkley Award for Books.
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