PublishedTextile Institute, July 2014 |
ISBN9781922079367 |
FormatSoftcover, 336 pages |
Dimensions23.6cm × 15.5cm × 2.4cm |
The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in thecracking 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 aliving thing but a killer. Tracy destroyed an entire city, left seventy-one people dead and rippedthe heart out of Australia's season of goodwill.
For the fortieth anniversary of the nation's mosticonic natural disaster, Sophie Cunningham has gone back to the eyewitness accounts of thosewho lived through the devastation-and those who faced the heartbreaking clean-up and theback-breaking rebuilding. From the quiet stirring of the service-station bunting that heralded thecatastrophe to the wholesale slaughter of the dogs that followed it, Cunningham brings to the talea novelist's eye for detail and an exhilarating narrative drive. And a sober appraisal of whatTracy means to us now, as we face more-and more destructive-extreme weather with everyyear that passes.
Compulsively readable and undeniably moving, Warning is the essentialnon-fiction book of 2014.
