Author: Allan Baillie
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742285120
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219
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Suddenly there was a trench across the beach, about ten meters away from the fishermen, where before there had been nothing but flat sand. The fishermen moved quickly away as the trench heaved grey ash across the sand. They sprinted when it hurled black rocks at them. Kerta didn't want to go to Krakatoa. He knows that a dark spirit, Orang Aljeh, is there and he is terrified he might wake it. But Kerta is there on the volcano, and the Ghost of Krakatoa has woken up. A powerful story of survival and loss based on the real-life events of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883. Winner of the 2010 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award Patricia Wrightson Prize 'This book is a marvel of precision and economy, stuffed to the gunnels with ideas, and brimming over with a dark energy...a masterclass in how to write...Krakatoa Lighthouse is that rare find: an exciting, moving story that keeps opening the doors to larger questions. Baillie puts the reader right there in the moment with stunningly accurate detail...yet we never feel the dead hand of history overwhelming us.' From the 2010 NSW Premier's Literary Award Judges' Report
Author: Allan Baillie
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742534570
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
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Something was in the rings that shouldn't have been there. Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous. Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal. With no choice but to investigate, what he will find is so extraordinary that it is almost beyond understanding.
Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
Publisher:
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Author: Allan Baillie
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1743480555
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 149
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30,000 years ago, before the pyramids are built, before the Ice Age comes and goes, and before Neanderthals become extinct, the Yam tribe live in peace on Bird Island. But the Crocodile tribe have other ideas . . . The ferocious Crocodile warriors have already killed Bent Beak's pa, and now they seem determined to take out his whole tribe. The only way to survive is to flee the island. But where will they go? As the Yam tribe brave the perils of the sea, will they survive the voyage into the unknown, and what awaits them just over the horizon? An enthralling story about the plight of the very first boat people, of their desperation, bravery and hope.
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Author: Vanya Vetto abetted by Chief Editor
Publisher: Far Side Travel Books
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Author: Nathaniel Bowditch
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Category : Nautical astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Author: Ian W. B. Thornton
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674505728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Nine months after the explosion, a French expedition searching for signs of life discovered a single spider that had crossed to the island on a balloon of silk. Life had returned to Krakatau. Scientists have been studying the island ever since.
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Languages : en
Pages : 646
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