The Complete Bushfire Safety Book

Joan Webster

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Random House
03 November 2000

Industrial: Commercial Art & Design; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Safety in the home

"The complete, comprehensive, unequalled guide to bushfire and wildfire safety in Australia.

The complete, comprehensive, unequalled guide to bushfire and wildfire safety in Australia.

Thoroughly researched, with up to date information on every aspect of the subject. ""I commend this book to every Australian... It could save your life"" - N.P. Cheney, CSIRO Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group

Background to bushfires or wildfires, bushfire cycles, bushfire and wildfire behaviour, how to prepare for bushfire season, the decision - evacuate or stay and what to do when bushfire threatens are all covered (in the U.S. bushfires are more commonly known as wildfires). This is the book you need for bushfire and wildfire safety and prevention."

By: Joan Webster
Imprint: Random House
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 466g
ISBN: 9781740510349
ISBN 10: 1740510348
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 03 November 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joan Katherine Webster is an award-winning freelance journalist, a newspaper columnist, poet, broadcaster, stage and television drama and satirical comedy writer, and an historian. Her first book was a children's novel, GATE CRASHED, published in 1976 under the name Joan Seppings. She has also been widely published under the byline Joan Seppings Webster. In 1991 she co-authored, with Sir George Reid, Q.C., M.L.A., his biography IN AND ABOUT PARLIAMENT. In 1987 the first edition of this book was accepted as a nomination for the BHP Pursuit of Excellence awards. In 1988, in recognition of her work on bushfires, Joan Webster was appointed consultant to the Victorian Ministry of Education to advise on bushfire safety in schools and community refuges. In 1990 she received the Australian Fire Protection Association's Community Service Award. She is currently working on another book and teaching Effective Writing classes.