Living With Earthquakes And Their Aftermath by Rosie Belton

Always an acute observer of people and the environment, in this new book Rosie Belton once again uses her diarist style to capture with intimacy and immediacy the events as they happened around her, in this case the earthquakes experienced by the people of Canterbury. Nothing could have prepared her, she says, for the severity of the quakes, starting with the first one in 2010, and then the ongoing disruption over the next six years: the grinding reality of living through so many months of shaking and the after-effects. Like many creative individuals, Rosie found that writing about those terrible events as they unfolded developed into a coping mechanism. And now, the result of her careful record-keeping and reflections can be read and appreciated by so many others whose lives have been affected by similarly large-scale natural disasters. It also makes excellent reading for anyone with an interest in knowing more about what it can be like to live in a seismically active country. Dedicated to all who face and survive unwanted change, Living with Earthquakes helps us, as well-known author and actor Michael Palin said after reading Rosies writings, to comprehend the incomprehensible, conveying the mixture of bewilderment, hope and desperation very effectively. He adds that it is hard for anyone who still calls the ground terra firma to take in what happened in Canterbury. This 2019 Renaissance Publishing Paperback is in very good condition. Signed.

ISBN: 9780994133427 SKU: 1578980 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1578980
Location: NZ NF