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Autore |
Macfie Rebecca |
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Titolo |
Report from Christchurch [[electronic resource]] |
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Bridget Williams Books, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (129 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Christchurch (N.Z.) |
Christchurch Earthquake, N.Z., 2011 |
Earthquake damage -- New Zealand -- Christchurch |
Earthquake relief -- New Zealand -- Christchurch |
Earthquakes -- New Zealand |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Introducing BWB Texts""; ""Foreword""; ""Author Note""; ""Hope and despair""; ""We are just shattered""; ""Blast those barriers""; ""Read all about it""; ""Enter the red zone""; ""Christchurch is struck again""; ""Hard yards""; ""Christchurch 12 months on""; ""Seeing the red zone""; ""Rush to ruin""; ""Postcards from Christchurch one year on""; ""How the Christchurch Pops Choir lit up our neighbourhood""; ""Outside the square""; ""Frustration and rage""; ""Cranmer Courts""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Copyright and Publisher Information"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'The grief sits like hot magma, held down by a crust of action...' Rebecca Macfie's first-hand accounts of the Christchurch earthquakes in the New Zealand Listener provided an often searing account of the disaster. They were powerful and immediate because Macfie herself lived there, personally affected by the devastation. As Macfie explains in 'Hope and despair', the first chapter of this BWB Text, her own house was badly damaged and she and her family were forced to move out. But other families faced injury and even death. Written over a period of two years, Macfie's 'Report from Christchu |
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