Maralinga, My Love

Maralinga, My Love PDF Author: Dorothy Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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A novel of Australia in the 1950's and life in the Australian forces assisting the British in their atomic tests at Maralinga.

Maralinga, My Love

Maralinga, My Love PDF Author: Dorothy Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Book Description
A novel of Australia in the 1950's and life in the Australian forces assisting the British in their atomic tests at Maralinga.

The Lodeman

The Lodeman PDF Author: Dorothy Johnston
Publisher: For Pity Sake Publishing Pty Limited
ISBN: 9780645040104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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The fourth book in Dorothy Johnton's 'sea-change mystery' series set in the coastal town of Queenscliff on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula.

One for the Master

One for the Master PDF Author: Dorothy Johnston
Publisher: Wakefield Press
ISBN: 9781862544086
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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When Helen Plathe sets out along the Barwon River path for her first day at Highlands woollen mill, she is following in the footsteps of her mother, her uncle, and her grandfather. Inside Highlands' tall black gates, Helen is initiated into an extraordinary world and discovers its secret history.

Atomic Thunder

Atomic Thunder PDF Author: Elizabeth Tynan
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526727587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects. British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities and turned the land into a radioactive wasteland. How did it come to pass that a democracy such as Australia suddenly found itself hosting another country’s nuclear program? And why has it continued to be shrouded in mystery, even decades after the atomic thunder clouds stopped rolling across the South Australian test site? In this meticulously researched and shocking work, journalist and academic Elizabeth Tynan reveals the truth of what really happened at Maralinga and the devastating consequences of what took place there, not to mention the mess that was left behind. Praise for Atomic Thunder “Compulsive reading? Make that compulsory. This is a brilliant book.” —Philip Adams

ONE FOOT WRONG

ONE FOOT WRONG PDF Author: SOFIE LAGUNA
Publisher: MEHTA PUBLISHING HOUSE
ISBN: 8184981929
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 111

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A brilliant first novel of profound depth, startling originality and breathtaking talent. A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by one book, an illustrated child`s bible, and its imagery forms the sole basis for her capacity to make poetic connection. One day Hester takes a brave Alice in Wonderland trip into the forbidden outside (at the behest of Handle `turn me turn me`), and this overwhelming encounter with light and sky and sunshine is a marvel to her. From this moment on, Hester learns the concept of the secret, and not telling, and the world becomes something that fills her with feeling as if she is a vessel, empty and bottomless for need of it.

Beneath The Southern Cross

Beneath The Southern Cross PDF Author: Judy Nunn
Publisher: Random House Australia
ISBN: 1742741843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and its heart. In 1788, Thomas Kendall, a naïve nineteen-year-old sentenced to transportation for burglary, finds himself bound for Sydney Town and a new life in the wild and lawless land beneath the Southern Cross. Thomas fathers a dynasty that will last more than two hundred years. His descendants play their part in the forging of a nation, but greed and prejudice see an irreparable rift in the family which will echo through the generations. It is only at the dawn of the new Millennium - as an old journal lays bear a terrible secret - that the family can finally reclaim its honour... Beneath the Southern Cross is as much a story of a city as it is a family chronicle. Bringing history to life, Judy Nunn traces the fortunes of Kendall's descendants through good times and bad, wars and social revolutions to the present day, vividly drawing the events, characters and issues that have made the city of Sydney and the nation of Australia what they are today.

The Long Road To Maralinga

The Long Road To Maralinga PDF Author: Reg Simpson
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291949186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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An account of an Royal Air Force man's long journey to get to Maralinga, South Australia, and his experiences as a participant in the British Atomic Weapons Tests held there in the South Australian desert during 1956.

Maralinga's Long Shadow

Maralinga's Long Shadow PDF Author: Christobel Mattingley
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1952533422
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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'Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits, coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.' Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first bombs of the nuclear tests at Maralinga were detonated in 1956. The tests continued until 1963 and their consequences profoundly affected her family and community. This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder.

Maralinga, the Anangu Story

Maralinga, the Anangu Story PDF Author: Yalata
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741766486
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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'Maralinga - the Anangu Story is our story. We have told it for our children, our grandchildren and their children. We have told it for you.' In words and pictures Yalata and Oak Valley community members, with author Christobel Mattingley, describe what happened in the Maralinga Tjarutja lands of South Australia before the bombs and after.

The White Tower

The White Tower PDF Author: Dorothy Johnston
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312332495
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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"While juggling her own baby daughter, Russian lover, a needy dog, and a plaguing ex-husband, Sandra races across the globe in pursuit of truth on behalf of a mother who wants to know how a game killed her son. And finds that the threads of truth and illusion can easily wind into a game of manipulation and deceit."--BOOK JACKET.