True Girt

· Black Inc.
4.7
3 reviews
Ebook
448
Pages
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About this ebook

In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep.


First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True Girt


True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail, and Captain Moonlite, Australia's most famous LGBTI bushranger. Meet William Nicholson, the Melbourne hipster who gave Australia the steam-powered coffee roaster and the world the secret ballot. And say hello to Harry, the first camel used in Australian exploration, who shot dead his owner, the explorer John Horrocks.


Learn how Truganini's death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth. Discover the role of Hall and Oates in the Myall Creek Massacre. And be reminded why you should never ever smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan.


If Manning Clark and Bill Bryson were left on a desert island with only one pen, they would write True Girt.


'An engaging, witty and utterly irreverent take on Australian history.' —Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie Project


'Astounding, gruesome and frequently hilarious, True Girt is riveting from beginning to end.' —Nick Earls

Ratings and reviews

4.7
3 reviews
Neil
May 11, 2024
Should be read by all fair dinkum Aussies. An eye opener.
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Allen Martin
October 12, 2022
very informative
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About the author

David Hunt is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own bios for all the books he has written. David is the author of Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, which won the 2014 Indie Award for non-fiction and was shortlisted in both the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Australian Book Industry Awards. True Girt, the sequel, was published in 2016, as was a book for children, The Nose Pixies. David has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south.

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