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The killing of thirty-four miners by police at Marikana in August 2012 was the largest massacre of civilians in South Africa since Sharpeville. The events have been covered in newspaper articles, on TV news and in a commission of inquiry, but there is still confusion about what happened on that fateful day.
In Murder At Small Koppie, renowned photojournalist Greg Marinovich explores the truth behind the Marikana massacre. He investigates the shootings near Wonderkop hill, which happened in view of the media, as well as the killings that happened beyond the view of cameras at a nondescript collection of boulders known as Small Koppie, some 300 metres away. Many of the men killed here were shot in cold blood at close range. Drawing on his own meticulous research, eyewitness accounts and the findings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, Marinovich accurately reconstructs that fateful day as well as the events leading up to the strike, and looks at the subsequent denials, obfuscation and buck-passing by Lonmin, the SAPS and the government.
This is the definitive account of the Marikana massacre from the journalist whose award-winning investigation into the tragedy has been called the most important piece of South African journalism since apartheid.
Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands
features American civil war forts, Europe's last leper colony and
South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and
colonial settlements and churches, and much more. Arranged
geographically, the book takes us from New York's East River to
islands off Alaska, from a French Napoleonic-era fort off the coast
of Normandy to deserted villages on remote Scottish isles, from
Venetian sanatoria to Croatian penal colonies, Japanese mining
colonies to Sudanese deserted ports and abandoned atolls in the
Indian Ocean. Leafing through these pages, the reasons for
abandonment are revealed: climate change sealing off fresh water or
river channels, shifting economic forces making life too hard,
religious conflict, or wars disrupting daily life - or the absence
of war rendering a military settlement unnecessary. With more than
180 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions,
Abandoned Islands is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost
worlds.
Abandoned buildings are a viewfinder into our heritage and often
offer a story to tell us, but not everyone will be lucky enough to
hear these stories before these buildings are gone forever. It was
this line of thinking that grew the author's passion for
discovering and exploring abandoned buildings, heritage sites and
locations not normally seen by the public eye. With camera in my
hand, he set out to find, visit, photograph and document as many of
these locations as he could before their stories are lost forever.
With over 140 eye-catching images from abandoned places such as
eerie old factories, crumbling asylums, untouched country theatres,
forgotten homes, all mixed with a small insight into their history,
Abandoned Brisbane is a showcase of just some of the amazing
locations within a few hours' drive of Brisbane.
Our beautiful planet is in danger: the warning signs are there,
year after year – from vast forest fires across Australia to
coral bleaching in the Pacific and the rapid break up of polar ice
and the consequent rise in sea levels, threatening low-lying
coastal communities everywhere. Arranged by continent, Endangered
Places introduces the reader to many of the most stunning natural
locations from the around the world that are currently under
threat. Learn about the magnificent Bornean rainforest, home to
threatened species such as orangutans, probiscis monkeys and the
Sumatran rhinoceros; marvel at the beauty of the Great Barrier
Reef, stretching 2,300 kilometres along Australia’s east coast
and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps;
explore the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world
and today less than 10 per cent of it’s original size after the
rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects; and
understand the process of desertification, which has led to the
huge expansion of the Sahara Desert and the dramatic shrinkage of
Lake Chad. Illustrated with more than 180 photographs of more than
100 threatened locations, Endangered Places celebrates the beauty
of our planet while reminding us of how easily this can be lost
through human behaviour and climate change.
How does a mudskipper fish manage to “walk” on land? Why is the
Hoatzin also known as ‘The Stinkbird’? And once the female Pipa
toad has laid her eggs, where does she put them? The answers? The
mudskipper can “walk” using its pectoral fins, the Hoatzin has
a unique digestive system which gives the bird a manure-like odour,
and the female Pipa Toad embeds its eggs on its back where they
develop to adult stage. Illustrated throughout with outstanding
colour photographs, Strange Animals presents the most unusual
aspects of 100 of the most unusual species. The selection spans a
broad spectrum of wildlife, from the tallest land living mammal,
the giraffe, to the light, laughing chorus of Australian kookaburra
birds, from the intelligence of the Bottlenose dolphin to octopuses
that change colour when they dream to the slow pace of the
three-toed sloth. Arranged geographically, the photographs are
accompanied by fascinating captions, which explain the quirky
characteristics of each entry. Including egg-laying mammals, birds,
reptiles, amphibians, cannibalistic insects and other
invertebrates, Strange Animals is a compelling introduction to some
of nature’s most curious beasts.
The Siege of Sarajevo remains the longest siege in modern European
history, lasting three times longer than the Battle of Stalingrad
and over a year longer than the Siege of Leningrad. Reporting the
Siege of Sarajevo provides the first detailed account of the
reporting of this siege and the role that journalists played in
highlighting both military and non-military aspects of it. The book
draws on detailed primary and secondary material in English and
Bosnian, as well as extensive interviews with international
correspondents who covered events in Sarajevo from within siege
lines. It also includes hitherto unpublished images taken by the
co-author and award-winning photojournalist, Paul Lowe. Together
Morrison and Lowe document a relatively short but crucial period in
both the history of Bosnia & Herzegovina, the city of Sarajevo
and the profession of journalism. The book provides crucial
observations and insights into an under-researched aspect of a
critical period in Europe's recent history.
Travelling from the edge of our Solar System, through the Milky Way
and to the outer edges of the observable universe, Deep Space is a
spectacular photographic guide to galaxies, nebulae, supernova,
clusters, black holes and quasars. Learn about the birth of stars
in our own galaxy, planets beyond our own solar system, when they
were first discovered and how we have managed to photograph these
places. Ranging from the Magellanic Clouds within the Milky Way to
stellar life cycles, from other spiral galaxies such as the
Andromeda Galaxy, to the Sombrero Galaxy, and from nebulae such as
the Pillars of Creation to black and white dwarfs, this is
accessibly written for the general reader to grasp the science and
magnitude of deep space. Featuring 200 outstanding colour
photographs and expert captions, Deep Space is most certainly out
of this world.
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