#NonFicNov 2021 week 4

Week 4: (November 22-26) – Stranger Than Fiction with Christopher at Plucked from the Stacks: This week we’re focusing on all the great nonfiction books that *almost* don’t seem real. A sports biography involving overcoming massive obstacles, a profile on a bizarre scam, a look into the natural wonders in our world—basically, if it makes your jaw drop, you can highlight it for this week’s topic.

My choice are: 

• “…a profile on a bizarre scam/cover-up” about...
• The Maralinga British Nuclear Tests

Atomic Thunder by Elizabeth Tynan (2018)

1. Between 1956 and 1963, the United Kingdom conducted
2. seven nuclear tests at the Maralinga site in South Australia,
3. The atomic weapons test series wreaked havoc on Indigenous communities.
4. It  turned the land into a radioactive wasteland.
5. In 1950 Australian PM  Robert Menzies agreed to atomic tests
6. …and left the public completely in the dark.
7. It is the uncovering of the extensive secrecy around the British tests in Australia
8. ….and many years after the British had departed, leaving an unholy mess behind.
9. Elizabeth Tynan has brought together a vast array of detail in this book
10. …that just made my jaw drop!
    
11. #MustRead nonfiction
12. REVIEW

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Book nr 2:

Adani:   Following Its Dirty Footprint   by Lindsay Simpson

REVIEW
 

1. Another JAW-DROPPING  non-fiction book
2. that is SO  relevant today thinking about COP26 and
3. the dangers of climate change.
4. Absolutely disgusting….what is happening in Australia!
5. Adani’s license to mine 60 million tonnes of coal for 60 years
6. threatens Australia’s precious ancient source of groundwater
7. …in the Galillee Basin, a vast underground water reservoir,
8. part of the Great Artesian Basin, occupying more than 20% of Australia.