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Great Australian Urban Legends
Australia's Wildest Tales
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Satanists in Perth. Panthers in Sydney. Inner Melbourne's secret morgue. Australia is stuffed full of stories that need to be taken with a spoonful of salt. Stories that we all know are silly, but that we also just can't help sharing. In Great Australian Urban Legends,...
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A hilarious dive into Australia's tallest tales from one of the country's funniest writers
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Satanists in Perth. Panthers in Sydney. Inner Melbourne's secret morgue.
Australia is stuffed full of stories that need to be taken with a spoonful of salt. Stories that we all know are silly, but that we also just can't help sharing. In Great Australian Urban Legends, Eamon Evans presents you with myths, misconceptions and barefaced lies about real people and real places down under.
These pages libel Captain Cook and slander Phar Lap. They will annoy the Wiggles and David Boon. They will reveal whether Harold Holt really died, if the bunyip ever lived, and which famous Australian now gets by as a ghost.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781923046740
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 26 November 2024
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Press
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
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Eamon Evans is the author of fifteen books, some quite good.
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