Joan Katherine Webster

The complete, comprehensive, unequalled guide to bushfire 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.

Chapter titles in THE COMPLETE BUSHFIRE SAFETY BOOK are:
* Background to Bushfires* Bushfire Cycles* Bushfire Behaviour* Insight into Bushfire Tragedy* How Bushfire Attacks Houses* Choosing a Safe Site* A Safe Property Layout* Design to Keep Bushfire Out of Buildings* Facilities for Bushfire Defence* Planting for Bushfire Protection* How to Prepare for Bushfire Season* The Decision - Evacuate or Stay?* Travelling in the Bushfire Season* What To Do When Bushfire Threatens* After a Bushfire* Emergency Checklists.

About the Author:

Joan Katherine Webster is an award-winning freelance journalist, newspaper columnist, poet, broadcaster, speaker, stage and television drama and satirical comedy writer and an historian. She has used all these talents in her research and writing on bushifire safety.

In 1988, in recognition of her work on bushfires, Joan Webster was appointed consultant to the Victorian Ministry of Education (Australia) to advise on bushfire safety in schools and community refuges. In 1990 she received the Australian Fire Protection Association's Community Service Award (1990).… (meer)