Black Saturday
Not the End of the Story
- Paperback
280 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2018
Summary
The Victorian bushfires of February 2009 captured the attention of all Australians and made headlines around the world. One hundred and seventy-three people lost their lives, the greatest number from any bushfire event in this nation’s history.In the wake of this tragedy much media and public commentary emphasised recovery, resilience, community, self-sufficiency and renewed determination. Peg Fraser, working as a Museum Victoria curator with survivors in the small settlement of Strathewen, l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925523683 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1925523683 |
| Author: | Peg Fraser |
| Publisher: | Monash University Publishing |
| Imprint: | Monash University Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2018 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
| Series: | Australian History |
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Peg Fraser’s extraordinary book transcends media clich
Peg Fraser’s extraordinary book transcends media cliché and illuminates what it meant to live through and beyond Black Saturday. Rich personal testimony and razor-sharp analysis evoke the many and varied ways that the people of Strathewen made sense of disaster.
– Alistair ThomsonPeg Fraser teases out the meanings of the stories told by survivors, both for those who tell the stories and those who listen to them. It is wonderful to see such a thoughtful taking on of this difficult and demanding work.
– Tom GriffithsAbout The Author
Peg Fraser
Peg Fraser has a PhD in History from Monash University. She is a writer and oral historian, and helped to develop the Victorian Bushfires Collection at Museum Victoria.
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