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BAD GROUND : INSIDE THE BEACONSFIELD MINE RESCUE by TONY WRIGHT
Category: Fiction
Bad Ground is the real story of miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb and their deliverance from entombment in the depths of the Beaconsfield hard-rock mine.But the seismic event that trapped them affected the close-knit community just as profoundly. Family, friends, fellow miners and rescuers: this is als ...Show more
Bad Ground: Inside the Beaconsfield mine disaster by Tony Wright
Category: Biography
Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and rescue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating aftermath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre underground on Anzac Day, 25 April 2006 killed their fellow worker, Larry Knight and le ...Show more
British Politics by Tony Wright
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Tony Wright's Very Short Introduction to British Politics is an interpretative essay on the British political system, rather than an abbreviated textbook on how it currently works. He identifies key characteristics and ideas of the British tradition, and investigates what makes British politics distinct ...Show more
Return to the Brain of Eden by Tony Wright
Category: Mind, Body and Spirit
Over a period of a million years the human brain expanded at an increasingly rapid rate, and then, 200,000 years ago, the expansion abruptly stopped. Modern science has overlooked this in order to maintain that we are at the pinnacle of our evolution. However, the halt in brain expansion explains not on ...Show more
Turn Right at Istanbul: A Walk on the Gallipoli Peninsula by Tony Wright
Category: Travel Literature
A personal account of the author's visit to Turkey, offering practical advice for the thousands of Australians who dream of making the nostalgic journey to Turkey and Gallipoli, coupled with a short history of the area and its role in WWI. Tony Wright stuffs a copy of his great-uncle George's Gallipoli ...Show more
Walking the Gallipoli Peninsula by Tony Wright
Category: Military
Tony Wright first travelled to Gallipoli with an Australian prime minister at the start of this century. He found himself intrigued by the swelling crowds of mainly young people at Old Anzac. He has returned again and again over the decade, shouldering a backpack containing his great-uncle's Gallipoli d ...Show more
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