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Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The Stories Behind Australia's Weird and Wonderful Place Names
Eamon Evans
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Description for Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The Stories Behind Australia's Weird and Wonderful Place Names
Paperback. The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HBJM; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 380.
The stories behind Australia's many, many strange, inappropriate and downright hilarious place names.
From Dismal Swamp to Useless Loop, Intercourse Island to Dead Mans Gully, Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else, Australia has some of the strangest, funniest, weirdest and most out-of-place names going - now described and explained in one humorous and fascinating book.
Australia's vast spaces and irreverent, larrikin history have given us some of the best place names in the world. Ranging from the less than positive (Linger and Die Hill, NSW), to the indelicate (Scented Knob, WA), the idiotic (Eggs and Bacon Bay, TAS) to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Sydney, Australia
ISBN
9780733635588
SKU
V9780733635588
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Eamon Evans
Eamon Evans is a Melbourne-based author who has spent all his working life writing for the online and print media. He has written four books: SMALL TALK, THE GODFATHER WAS A GIRL, LORD SANDWICH AND THE PANTS MAN and GRAND SLAMS OF TENNIS. His work has appeared in the SUNDAY HERALD SUN, the ADELAIDE ADVERTISER, the AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW, the ... Read more
Reviews for Mount Buggery to Nowhere Else: The Stories Behind Australia's Weird and Wonderful Place Names
A hilarious and unusual tour of Australia and its history
Troy Lennon
The Daily Telegraph
Overall though, this is a fun, sometimes shocking... but mostly quite amusing foray into Australian place names, and on the side, Australian history.
Bruce Gargoyle
The Bookshelf Gargoyle
Troy Lennon
The Daily Telegraph
Overall though, this is a fun, sometimes shocking... but mostly quite amusing foray into Australian place names, and on the side, Australian history.
Bruce Gargoyle
The Bookshelf Gargoyle