Tempered by Fire: Stories from the Firefighters and Survivors of the 1961 Western Australian Bushfires edited by Roger Underwood

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

The summer of 1961 in Western Australia was hot and dry, punctuated by lightning and cyclonic windstorms. Bushfires razed four towns and devastated hundreds of thousands of hectares of forests and farmland.

Now the people who fought these fires, were forced to flee from them, or who lost everything in their path, tell their stories. Their memories are vivid and recapture the drama and tragedy of the fires. And they highlight the timeless qualities of Australians facing calamity: courage, understatement, resilience, mateship, humour.

Tempered by Fire is an anthology of stories written by people at the bushfire front in January, February and March 1961: the year Western Australia burned. (back cover)

The first fire at Dwellinup moved south, burning out four timber towns: Holyoake, Nanga Brook, Marrinup, and Banksiadale.