Brave: Ordinary Australians and their extraordinary acts of courage by Mark Whittaker

Would you squeeze your way into a flooded, pitch-dark stormwater
drain to rescue a kid? Would you knowingly cop a 20,000-volt
electric shock to save a friend and his child? Would you swim
out from the beach to rescue a man bitten by a five-metre
white pointer - while the shark is still circling him? Would you
run into the carnage of a burning Bali nightclub to save people
when anyone who can still walk is running the other way?

These are decisions made in a split second by ordinary people
placed in extraordinary circumstances. Yet those decisions
can - and usually do - have an impact that lasts a lifetime.
Mark Whittaker, Walkley Award-winning journalist and author,
has written a unique account that gets inside the heads of
these men and women during their amazing acts of bravery.
Whittaker then explores the long aftermath and the complex
tangle of emotions - from elation to guilt and anger - that
were the furthest things from their minds when they made
that snap decision to risk their lives for someone else's.

Brave is, in every sense of the word, extraordinary - both in the
people it describes and honours, and in the effect it has on the
reader. It is compelling, complex, heart-breaking and uplifting.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - Short Stories
Condition: Good
Published: 2011 by Pan Macmillan
Pages: 344
ISBN: 9781405039871
Weight: 500g