Girt
The Unauthorised History of Australia
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia ...In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of felony of sock, and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coc…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86395-611-6
- EAN: 9781863956116
- Produktnummer: 19407660
- Verlag: Black Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 286 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.7 cm 445 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 445
Über den Autor
David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own bios for all the books he has written. David is the author of Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, which won the 2014 Indie Award for non-fiction and was shortlisted in both the NSW Premier's Literary Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards. True Girt, the sequel, will be published in November 2016. David is a historian, comedy writer and children's book author. He has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south.
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