Australia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the
devastation that nature has wreaked on our wild country and its
people.
From the agonies of droughts and oods to the shocks of
earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much
for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich environment.
Freak weather has caused plane crashes and shipwrecks.
Australia's Natural Disasters is a fascinating chronicle of the
ferocity of nature and the dramatic effects it has had on this
country and its people - from the mid-1800s to the seemingly more
frequent extreme-weather events of the 2000s.