The price of education in a land where illiteracy means death
Muurlink, OT orcid:0000-0002-8251-9521 'Snakes took shelter with men. Snakes did not kill men, men did not kill snakes. It seemed that the end of the world had started.” The words are a rare oral record of the worst environmental disaster in recorded history, which took place in 1970 when a rel...
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Minnis Communications
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/1227896 |
| Summary: | Muurlink, OT orcid:0000-0002-8251-9521 'Snakes took shelter with men. Snakes did not kill men, men did not kill snakes. It seemed that the end of the world had started.” The words are a rare oral record of the worst environmental disaster in recorded history, which took place in 1970 when a relatively small cyclone combined with a high tide in the bowl-like topography of the Bay of Bengal, and whipped up a huge wall of water which swamped the low lying delta island of Bhola, Bangladesh. As many as half a million were drowned or crushed by the wave. When |
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