Description |
x, 261 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Unchartered territory -- Home front -- Fire plan -- Neighbourhood watch -- Balancing act -- Incident control -- Red wind -- CFA -- Matday -- Arson -- Car alarm -- First strike -- Roadblock -- Fire front -- Red flag -- Coombs Road -- Scratch crew -- Godspeed to you all -- The boss -- Tanker Two -- Home fires -- Survival arc -- Pheasant Creek -- Snapshots -- Fire: an illuminated history -- The school -- Firefight in Kinglake -- Kinglake: inside the shed -- In exile -- You have to keep breathing -- Underworld -- Silent night -- Saving people -- Down the mountain -- Convoy -- On and off road -- Bitter homecoming -- Nightmares -- Bushfire brain -- Resurrection -- A reflection -- Update |
Summary |
On 7 February 2009 Sergeant Roger Wood found himself at the epicentre of the worst bushfire disaster in Australia's history: Black Saturday. Wood, who's a country cop with twenty years' experience - and also a raucous, meditating, horse-riding vegan - was the only officer on duty in the small community of Kinglake |
Link |
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Notes |
N copy signed and inscribed by the author, 3 August 2013. ANL |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-258) |
Audience |
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General |
Subject |
Wood, Roger.
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Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
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'The Nib' Waverley Library Award for Literature (2012)
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Black Saturday bushfires, 2009
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Forest fires -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.)
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Forest fires -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
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Natural disasters -- Australia -- Victoria.
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Police -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.) -- Biography
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Police -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake -- Biography
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Police -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
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Wildfires -- Australia -- Kinglake (Vic.)
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Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria -- Kinglake
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SUBJECT |
Kinglake (Vic.)
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Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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Biographies.
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LC no. |
2011486538 |
ISBN |
9781921758263 (paperback) |
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