Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm – Karen Kissane
Worst of Days: Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm by award winning journalist Karen Kisane is all about the dramatic day in the 2009 Victorian bushfires, when hopes and dreams were reduced to ashes by one of the most ferocious fires in Australia’s bushfire history.
It takes readers inside the ferocious, insatiable beast that was the Black Saturday inferno. It takes us to the people who found themselves in its path, fighting and fleeing the flames. It is a powerful journey into the human psyche, showing the very best and worst of what we do under threat: one man who’s just heard his family has been killed goes on to save the lives of others and another man refuses to cover the face of someone who has died because ‘it’s not my job, mate.’
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
This is a gripping behind-the-scenes tale of officials and their bungles, towns and their heroes, of survivors, saviours and lost souls. It is the story of the creature that pursued them all: fire.
Read this book? – Leave a comment or review below.
Related Books:
- 1 Comment
- Tags: 9780733625008, Flames, Fury, Inside the Black Saturday Firestorm, Karen Kissane, Saints, Saviours, Survivors, Worst of Days
What do you think? Join the discussion...
Additional comments powered by BackType
I have just finished Karen’s book, which is quite good, but I believe the better book is Roger Franklin’s “Inferno:The Day Victoria Burned”. Karen does a very good job of telling what happened, but Franklin’s recounting of that day is imbued with a fierce moral outrage over the failure of so many agencies and institutions.
The other book, which I am reading at the moment, is “A Future in Flames”
Reply