Burn: The Epic Story of Bushfire in Australia by Paul Collins

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Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with protective plastic covering. No external stickers. Stamps on inside. Remnant of date due slip on half-title page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Wear to book corners and edges. Red ink mark on right foredge. Pages are sunned.

With the start of every bushfire season and the first threatening hints of burning eucalypt in the air, we are reminded, no matter where we live, that bushfire is an inescapable reality in this country.

Drawing on accounts of the most devastating conflagrations in Australia's European history, historian Paul Collins tells the epic story of bushfire in Australia:

• 1851 'Black Thursday' fire, which burnt out one quarter of Victoria
• 1939 'Black Friday' fires, in which many lives were lost and thousands of hectares were destroyed in Victoria, NSW, Canberra, South Australia and even Tasmania
• Canberra inferno in January 2003

Frightening, compelling, vivid and provocative, Burn reveals stories of heroism, stupidity, political incompetence and environmental vandalism. This is the grand narrative of bushfire in Australia, the most fire-prone land on earth.