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Rick Wilkinson

Author of It's True! Animals Are Electrifying

16 Works 40 Members 1 Review

About the Author

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Series

Works by Rick Wilkinson

It's True! Animals Are Electrifying (2005) 8 copies

Incredible Journeys: Adventures Into the Unknown (True Stories) (1994) 8 copies

A thirst for burning: The story of Australia's oil industry (1983) 3 copies

Knights, knaves and dragons : 50 years inside APPEA and Australia's oil and gas politics (2010) 3 copies

Rocks to Riches: The History of Australia's National Geological Survey (1996) 3 copies, 1 review

Where God never trod : Australia's oil explorers across two centuries (1991) 2 copies

Teeth of the Storm (The Stones of Fire Books, Book 2) (2000) 2 copies

The Ancient Secret (Stones of Fire) (2000) 2 copies

Return of the phasmid : Australia's rarest insect fights back from the brink of extinction (2014) 2 copies

The Bellarine... Via Rambler's Road: People and Stories of the Bellarine Peninsula (2005) 1 copy

WEC: Oil, Gas to Remain Dominant Commodies (Article) 1 copy

Endangered! working to save animals at risk (2002) 1 copy

Speaking Oil and Gas (2005) 1 copy

The stones of fire (1989) 1 copy

Twists in the sand : 50 years in the turbulent life of Beach Energy (2011) 1 copy

Once upon a wildcat : images from Australia's petroleum story (2017) 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Gender: male
Nationality: Australia

Members

Reviews

Rocks to riches : the story of Australia's national… by Rick Wilkinson

This is an institutional history of what has become Geoscience Australia. It is interesting but has a lot of names and it was hard to follow the story when I got people confused. Also rather than describing places by locations, it tends to use geological basin names instead. If you haven't got them all memorised (and there's no map), it's easy to lose track and therefore interest.

On the upside there are lots of fascinating historical photographs.

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seabear | Jan 18, 2015 |

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Awards

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CBCA Book of the Year

It's True! Animals Are Electrifying (Notable Book – 2006)

Statistics

Works: 16
Members: 40
Popularity: #370,100

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 20

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