| ISBN |
9781742335292 |
| Name |
Nunn, Judy author. |
| Title |
Maralinga Judy Nunn ; read by Deidre Rubenstein. |
| Edition |
Retail edition. |
| Description |
14 sound discs (CD) (17 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 12 cm. |
| Series |
Bolinda audio. |
| Notes |
"Complete & unabridge."--Container. |
| Performers |
Read by Deidre Rubenstein. |
| Summary |
The power to love, the power to hate, the power to destroy human existence, it is a deadly cocktail. During the darkest days of the Cold War, in the remote wilderness of a South Australian desert, the future of an infant nation is being decided, without its people's knowledge. A British airbase in the middle of nowhere; an atomic weapons testing ground; an army of raw youth led by powerful, ambitious men, a cocktail for disaster. Such is Maralinga in the spring of 1956. Maralinga is a story of British Lieutenant Daniel Gardiner, who accepts a twelve-month posting to the wilds of South Australia on a promise of rapid promotion; Harold Dartleigh, Deputy Director of MI-6 and his undercover operative Gideon Melbray; Australian Army Colonel Nick Stratton and the enigmatic Petraeus Mitchell, bushman and anthropologist. They all find themselves in a violent and unforgiving landscape, infected with the unique madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates. Maralinga is also a story of love; a love so strong that it draws the adventurous young English journalist Elizabeth Hoffman halfway around the world in search of the truth. And Maralinga is a story of heartbreak; heartbreak brought to the innocent First Australians who had walked their land unhindered for 40,000 years. Maralinga, a desolate place where history demands an emerging nation choose between hell and reason. |
| Subjects |
Audiobooks |
| Nuclear weapons -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Fiction |
| Talking books |
| Maralinga (S. Aust.) -- Fiction |
| Added Names |
Rubenstein, Deidre, 1948- narrator. |
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