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 Nevil Shute

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 On the Beach
Year 1957
Publisher Pan Books  (William Heinemann Ltd)
ISBN 330105701
 

 
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 'I won't take it,' Moira said vehemently. 'It's not fair  ... Why should we have to die because other countries nine or ten thousand miles away from Australia wanted to have a war? It's so bloody unfair.'

The enthralling story of the final months in the lives of five people living in a world doomed to die by radiation.  The feelings and the quiet heroism of ordinary people who have come face to face with extraordinary and tremendous events are unforgettably portrayed.
 

 
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 Nevil Shute wrote this novel 50 years ago, and it is as powerful now as it was then. This story of the last people on earth is simply devastating--in every sense of the word. It amazes me that Shute, an aeronautical engineer who helped Britain design and build nuclear weapons, would sit down 10 years later and produce this horrifying account of the possible effects of his own work. His change of heart is our great gift.
Tom S.
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Shark Bay, Australia from the International Space Station

 

 

Credit: NASA

Down Under From Up Above
Shark Bay, Australia as seen by the Expedition 10 crew on the International Space Station. This image shows large solar salt works developed in Useless Loop and Useless Inlet. The salt is produced when ponds are repeatedly flooded with seawater, which is progressively concentrated by evaporation. This particular salt farm opened in 1967 and expanded operations in the 1990s. Today, this salt farm comprises over 50 ponds, the newest pond in the outermost pond in Useless Inlet, which provides the first evaporation cycle to increase the salinity of the water prior to entering the next pond. Complex chemical and biological adjustments occur in the system each time the configuration of ponds is changed.

NASA Image of the day archive

  

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