Big blue sky : a memoir / Peter Garrett
- Bib ID:
- 7463660
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Garrett, Peter, 1953-, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017
- ©2015
- 448 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits (some colour), plates (some colour) ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760632748 (paperback)
- Summary:
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The provocative, entertaining, impassioned and inspiring memoir of Midnight Oil frontman, environmental activist and politician - a truly remarkable Australian.
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives. From his idyllic childhood growing up in the northern suburbs of Sydney, to an early interest in equality and justice; from the height of 1960s culture shock at ANU to fronting iconic Australian band Midnight Oil; from his time as a galvanising activist for the environment to being the only unaligned Cabinet minister in two Labor governments, Garrett has an extraordinary story to tell. He writes movingly about his lifelong mission to protect the environment and his connection with Aboriginal people, about his love for his family and his passion for our country: what it means to him and what it can become. Provocative, entertaining, impassioned and inspiring, this memoir goes to the heart and soul of a remarkable Australian and raises questions crucial to us all.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2015
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