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In the words of people who experienced it, Currowan tells the gripping story of the massive fire that engulfed the south coast of New South Wales, Australia, in 2019–20. Burning for seventy-four days across nearly 500,000 hectares, it was part of Australia’s “black summer”.
Journalist Bronwyn Adcock fled the fire herself, with her children, while her husband went missing. In Currowan, she tells her own story and those of many others: what they experienced, saw, thought and felt. This compelling narrative is braided with larger themes – what we know about how fire behaves, and how that is changing due to climate change.
Adcock writes: “Australia is (unfortunately) a posterchild for what happens in a climate-changed world. I want to convey what it is like to live in such a world: the fear, the dislocation and the danger. What happens when people are let down by governments and are underprepared. And when a country disregards and poorly manages its land. It is like a dystopian horror story – except it is real.”
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Rights held: world; film/TV
Author Biography
BRONWYN ADCOCK is an award-winning Australian journalist and writer. She has worked as a radio current affairs reporter and radio documentary maker for the ABC, as a video journalist for SBS’s Dateline, and as a freelance writer, including for Griffith Review and The Monthly.
Black Inc.
An imprint of Schwartz Books, Black Inc. is a leading independent Australian book publisher of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. We are passionate about diversity, inclusivity, social justice, new ideas and writing which informs, entertains and inspires. We are fiercely independent, but also strongly commercial. We publish local and international commercial mass-market titles under our Nero imprint, and children’s books under Piccolo Nero. Our La Trobe University Press imprint brings leading scholars and exports to deliver books of high intellectual quality, substance and originality. Schwartz Books also publishes the issue-defining journals Quarterly Essay and Australian Foreign Affairs.
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- Publisher Black Inc.
- Publication Date September 2021
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781760642747
- Publication Country or regionAustralia
- FormatPaperback
- Pages320
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Dimensions234 x 153 mm
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