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Girt No word could better capture the essence of AustraliaIn 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. Girth measurement 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 coconut in Australia s only military coup. Kindle gift card target Not to read it would be un Australian Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia 1 David Hunts first book Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia won the Australian 2014 Indie Award for Non Fiction Book of the Year The award is bestowed by Australian independent booksellers who clearly have excellent taste. Grit ebook Girt was also shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards ABIA the New South Wales Premiers Literary Awards the Australian Book Design Awards and was the only non fiction book shortlisted for the ABA Nielsen BookData 2014 Booksellers Choice Award. Kindle gifts Girt is four parts narrative Australian history and one part satire mixed in the cultural melting pot stirred with the wooden spoon of schadenfreude and garnished with the crushed stems of tall poppies. Girton college True Girt volume 2 of The Unauthorised Histor David Hunt s first book Girt The Unauthorised History of Australia won the Australian 2014 Indie Award for Non Fiction Book of the Year The award is bestowed by Australian independent booksellers who clearly have excellent taste. Gita adhyay 1 Girt was also shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards ABIA the New South Wales Premier s Literary Awards the Australian Book Design Awards and was the only non fiction book shortlisted for the ABA Nielsen BookData 2014 Booksellers Choice Award. Gift bag Girt is four parts narrative Australian history and one part satire mixed in the cultural melting pot stirred with the wooden spoon of schadenfreude and garnished with the crushed stems of tall poppies. Humor and comedy girth meaning True Girt volume 2 of The Unauthorised History of Australia was published in 2016 and shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the 2017 ABIAs and for the Russell Prize for Humour Writing. Gitaar bouwpakket David s first children s picture book The Nose Pixies was also published in 2016 It is illustrated by the award winning Lucia Masciullo The Nose Pixies is a tale of a father s love a son s nose picking and the bedtime story that cured him of his habit. Kobo ebook gift card David s second picture book with Lucia Masciulo My Real Friend is about friendship and the existential angst of being an imaginary friend David has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania only smaller and not as far south site_link I give myself five stars for effort Well done me English If you ask most Aussies they ll very likely tell you that Australian history is quite boring. Girl ka photo It is a new country invaded and colonised by the Brits in the eighteenth century even though the Dutch and the French had discovered it many years earlier This unauthorised history covers the discovery of Australia its first colonies and some of the great men of the time such as Macquarie Macarthur Flinders and many others who have many statues around Australia streets rivers even banks etc named after them It turns out that they were all very flawed people who d have thought Not that one learns those kinds of things in the history books After all those historical figures are literally put on a pedestal I found this book hilarious and very interesting Hunt s writing style was similar to Bill Bryson s If you re not a fan of sarcasm and irreverence this book is not for you It was right up my alley I plan on reading the next two instalments NB I was surprised by the choice of a female narrator for this book English I really wanted to like this book I love the concept because the history of Australia is quirky and the idea of it written with Bill Bryson esque humour is appealing but I couldn t help feeling this attempt needed a laughter track behind it most of the jokes were awkward and predictable The reading experience was akin to sitting down to Christmas lunch with that annoying uncle who thinks he is incredibly funny Through the nibbles you laugh politely hoping against all precedent that he will say something funny soon by the time the ham is sliced you are rolling your eyes and when the pavlova appears a sarcastic comment sparks that family argument the one you knew would occur before you even arrived But based on the ratings on here I am in the minority so I do applaud the author for writing a history book that engaged the masses I on the other hand will stick to boring history for now English This is a seriously amusing book You know both serious and amusing The author says at the end that he wanted to do to Australian history what Bill Bryson does for science and given I laughed out loud quite a few times during this I would have to say he has succeeded Australian history is a deeply strange thing Like the author of this I only became interested in it after school where I thought it was tedious and so lacking in things that had happened that I could only feel sorry for the poor teachers trying to teach it in a way that would be anything but pure agony I love that this is called Girt and his next one is called True Girt No Australian could miss the reference our National Anthem has the line Our land is girt by sea and of such little things we are proud Ireland similarly has songs about the joys of being surrounded by the sea He has left lots of scope for future volumes in the series and the details of the lives of people like Banks Flinders Cook and King are really a delight How odd it is that so often the things that people become famous for are among the least interesting things about them. Gift kindle unlimited subscription If you want an easy introduction to Australian history and a few belly laughs too start here English I laughed a lot and read a lot of passages to my husband This is always a sign of a good book With a great sense of humour no one is safe from being mocked in this book David Hunt writes our history in a way that I have never read it. Git epub It has made me interested in the history of Australia in a way that I have never been before I have a long list of highlights and notes of people that I want to read about Read Jan 2015 Dec 2016 English
While funny and informative I couldn t get past the racism of this book Yep yep it s satire but referring to historically discriminated people as lazy and uninventive and all the rest isn t breaking any new ground and rather just reinforcing actually held views that continue to make real struggles for modern Aboriginal people Even the milder white on white racism against Irish and Scottish people is continuously a punchline until the dead horse disintegrates from over flogging Good for an overview of early Australian colony history and you ll be very familiar with every stereotype the author knows by the end of it English Okay so there should probably be a mention SOMEWHERE in the title that this is in fact volume 1 and not the complete history of Australia It covers Australia s history from the megafauna era through European discovery and the arrival of the First Fleet and then becomes the history of early colonial New South Wales through to the end of the Lachlan Macquarie era so 1822 Still it s a book that incredibly readable filled with entertaining titbits and anecdotes and all with a fantastically sarcastic and funny writing style There were moments throughout that were clearly poking modern Australia with a stick references for example to the Eora considering the First Fleet to be boat people who should integrate into society as well as a few brilliantly inserted Keating and Latham isms a conga line of suckholes will forever be my personal favourite.
Ebook gift subscription It s a book that doesn t require any prior knowledge of Australian history though there are definitely some in jokes for those of us who ve been here a while Well and truly worth the read and should probably be handed out in high schools to keep kids interested in a subject that tends to be presented in a very dry and uninteresting way English This should be compulsory reading for all high school students As a history graduate I was able to fully appreciate just how well researched and well written this book really is It s so easy to read and so entertaining it s easy to think it s all just a bit fun On the contrary this book should be compulsory reading for all high school students because it actually brings our marvellous chequered past to life like no other history of Australia I ve ever read Humour and insight leap out from every page and just when you think you couldn t laugh any louderthere s the footnotes English Bad good bad good bad good ahh fuck it I can t be bothered any Some of the worst sentences ever written about some of the most fascinating historyI gave up at the 150 page mark English Girt is an entertaining read but heavy sometimes even heavyhanded in its humour and light on facts It gives a great general overview of the early years of Australian history but gives of a sense of character than a sense of history It s a fun book although some of the humour can be a little on the nose so if you re looking for an historical book with an easy to read core this definitely fits the bill If you actually want to learn something concrete not so much:
History of granges Our nation s beginnings are steeped in the strange the ridiculous and the frankly bizarre Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us:
Gita adhyay 15 It is a very brief history of the Australia with a focus on the colonisation the governors and in particular the treatment of indigenous australians:
Ebook gift subscription I feel like my eyes have been opened Bligh was an ass hole Macarthur was a venomous man who only cared about himself and Flinders was in love with Bass,
Giethoorn It s about the vibe of the thing English
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