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Author Kenny, Robert, 1950- author.

Title Gardens of fire : an investigative memoir / Robert Kenny.

Publication Info. Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (260 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In 2009, as the Black Saturday fires swept Victoria, writer and historian Robert Kenny defended his home in Redesdale. His fire plan was sound and he was prepared. But the reality of the fire was more ferocious and more unpredictable than he could have imagined. By the end of the day, his house and the life contained within were gone. The years that followed were marked by grieving, recovering and eventually rebuilding - a process starkly framed by the choice between remembering and forgetting. The resulting book is a riveting story of personal loss, woven with intellectual and historical investigations of fire in the Australian landscape, mythologies of fire, and ideas of loss, home and community. This is stimulating writing, edged with beauty, grief and hope.
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Subject Wildfires -- Australia -- Victoria.
Wildfires.
Australia.
Victoria.
Forest fires -- Australia -- Victoria.
Forest fires.
Fire weather -- Australia -- Victoria.
Fire weather.
Natural disasters -- Australia -- Victoria.
Natural disasters.
Fire ecology -- Australia -- Victoria.
Fire ecology.
Rescue work -- Australia -- Victoria.
Rescue work.
Victoria -- History -- 21st century.
History.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000 - 2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Kenny, Robert, 1950- author. Gardens of fire 9781742585109 (OCoLC)839545436
ISBN 9781742585468 (electronic book)
1742585469 (electronic book)
9781742585109
1742585108