Warning. The Story of Cyclone Tracy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Text Publishing
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 306 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in the cracking air when there is an electrical storm and as the thunder rolls around the sky... When Cyclone Tracy swept down on Darwin at Christmas 1974, the weather became not just a living thing but a killer. Tracy destroyed an entire city, left seventy-one people dead and ripped the heart out of Australias season of goodwill. For the fortieth anniversary of the nations most iconic natural disaster, Sophie Cunningham has gone back to the eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the devastationand those who faced the heartbreaking clean-up and the back-breaking rebuilding. From the quiet stirring of the service-station bunting that heralded the catastrophe to the wholesale slaughter of the dogs that followed it, Cunningham brings to the tale a novelists eye for detail and an exhilarating narrative drive. And a sober appraisal of what Tracy means to us now, as we face moreand more destructiveextreme weather with every year that passes. Compulsively readable and undeniably moving, Warning is the essential non-fiction book of 2014.

ISBN: 9781922079367