Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia by Mark Dapin
"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains who ought to be locked up."
As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia – a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad.
From the last travelling boxing tent to feral urban sewer rats to Vietnam Veteran bikies and the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, his writing illuminates the stranger side of Australian life in a travel book like no other.
Format: Paperback | 396 pages
Dimensions: 23.3 x 15.4 x 2.8 | 590g
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2008
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Macmillan
Publication City/Country: Sydney, Australia
Language: English
Edition Number: 1
ISBN10: 1405038721
ISBN13: 9781405038720
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor scuff marks along the edges, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.