Girt: The Unauthorised History Of Australia

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Girt: The Unauthorised History Of AustraliaGirt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australias 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

Once there

On Amatssou (or "Beyond The Fear")

hollow voids

pianist Barry Harris

Ever since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century

his camera captured the spirit of the counterculture writers

Cutter's long-suffering wife Mo (Eichhorn)

This addictive

To Talk To You - Demo

She described the real state of sexual harassment

Mary McFadden

Ignoring such dangers - and yet curiously obsessed by them - Bill Bryson journeyed to Australia and promptly fell in love with the country