Maralinga [sound recording (audio book)] / Judy Nunn ; read by Deidre Rubenstein.
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SoundPublisher number: BAB 091150 | Bolinda AudioPublication details: Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio., p2009Description: 14 audio discs (17 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discISBN: 9781742145686Subject(s): Nuclear weapons -- Australia -- Fiction | Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Fiction | Compact discs | Maralinga (S.A.) -- FictionGenre/Form: General fiction. | Audiobooks. Read by Deidre Rubenstein.Summary: "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 undue madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates"--Container.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Talking Books | Davis (Central) Library Stack Room | Stack Room | NUN | 1 | Reference Only | Temporarily unavailable for check out | T00567354 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Compact discs.
Read by Deidre Rubenstein.
"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 undue madness and excitement that only nuclear testing creates"--Container.
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