Isbn: 9781869506438 - bad ground: inside the beaconsfield mine (2 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. A very clean copy. Tony Wright recounts the dramatic rescue of miners Todd Russell and Brant Webb, who were trapped almost a kilometre underground following a rock fall at Tasmania's Beaconsfield gold mine. For 14 days the two men survived in a cramped space while rescuers worked desperately to reach them. The book follows their ordeal below ground alongside the rescue operation, the death of fellow miner Larry Knight, and the experiences of families, rescuers and the close-knit Beaconsfield community. A gripping account of survival, endurance and an extraordinary mining rescue.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 318 pages. Bad Ground is the exclusive, authorised story of the 14-day entombment and re scue of Beaconsfield miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell and the fascinating afte rmath. The blast and rock fall which occurred one kilometre underground on Anzac Day, 25 April 2006, killed their fellow worker, Larry Knight, leaving their shi ft manager certain they were dead. Tony Wright's enthralling, often spine-chilli ng narrative begins with a masterfully rendered portrait of the small Tasmanian mining township where the drama unfolded, a township that revealed its deepest s ecrets to him. Full of portent, Bad Ground reads like a psychological thriller a s it follows the many intriguing and moving developments surrounding its central characters and their families, above ground and deep below. Russell and Webb, w ho were wary colleagues before becoming trapped in a cramped and crushed cage, s hare explicit details of their gruelling 14-day ordeal. They give an uncensored account of the darkest first five days during which little hope was held finding them, dead or alive, and the profoundly changed world they re-joined when rescu ed via the tunnel that served as their lifeline for nine agonisingly slow days. Bad Ground sets a new standard for this genre. Beautifully crafted, complex and, in parts, explosive, in the finest storytelling tradition, Tony Wright has writ ten a compelling yarn that will stay with you long after the event itself has be en forgotten.…