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‘Total terror, boiling blackness’: a crocodile death roll reborn as art
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By Andrew Stephens
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Credit:Ross Anthony Willis
When the crocodile’s jaws closed upon Val Plumwood, she was alongside a steep muddy bank in the driving rain of Kakadu, grasping the lower branches of a sandpaper fig tree. Despite her fierce fighting, the crocodile had already pulled her under the water twice; now it took her for a third, violent death roll. As Plumwood was submerged, she felt convinced this was the end.
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