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"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: 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 and 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.
About the Author
Mark Dapin moved to Australia in the late 1980s. He has been editor in chief of ACP's men's magazines, and is a hugely popular columnist for Fairfax's Good Weekend. He lives in Sydney with his partner and two children.
ISBN: 9781405038720
ISBN-10: 1405038721
Audience:
General
Format:
Paperback
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 370
Published: 1st November 2008
Dimensions (cm): 23.3 x 15.4
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.572
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