Australia And How To Find It Australia And How To Find It

Australia And How To Find It

Publisher Description

WHY were men and women in New South Wales once ordered to wear skirts for sea bathing?

WHAT did famous writers such as Mark Twain and Anthony Trollope have to say about Australia?

HOW did the miracle known as the Sydney Opera House ever see the light of day?

WHAT'S the point of family history?

Australia And How To Find It is a mixture of odds and sods about that weird, eccentric country. It explains the background to some of the more bizarre rules and regulations that popped up in the country's development, and how the country looked to overseas visitors. How border disagreements led to passengers having to change trains because of the different railway gauges, and why murder defendants had to be tried twice. How Admiral Nelson was able to joke about only having one arm (and why he warrants inclusion in a book about Australia); the struggle of the Aboriginal people to wrest their artefacts back from the clutches of the British Museum; how Australian culture is a lot more diverse and innovative than given credit for by the rest of the world.

Aimed at readers interested in the idiosyncrasies of this unique country and its inhabitants, old and new, as seen through the eyes of a Londoner and Australophile.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2019
October 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
128
Pages
PUBLISHER
Patsy Trench
SELLER
Draft2Digital, LLC
SIZE
848.5
KB
A Bloody Good Rant A Bloody Good Rant
2021
The Art of Time Travel The Art of Time Travel
2017
Girt Nation Girt Nation
2021
W.E.H. Stanner W.E.H. Stanner
2024
The Colony The Colony
2009
Inventing the Victorians Inventing the Victorians
2014
The Awakening of Claudia Faraday The Awakening of Claudia Faraday
2023
The Worst Country in the World The Worst Country in the World
2012
All We Need Is Love All We Need Is Love
2021
A Country to be Reckoned with A Country to be Reckoned with
2018
South South
1919
The Art of War The Art of War
2010