Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia - David Hunt

Category: History, Humor
Language: English
Keywords: Australia History

Written by David Hunt
Read by David Hunt
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

General Information
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Title: Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia
Author: David Hunt
Read By: David Hunt
Copyright: 2015
Audiobook Copyright: 2015
Genre: Audiobook
Publisher: Audible Studios
Duration: 6 hours, 43 minutes, 58 seconds
Chapters: 11

Media Information
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Source Format: Audible AAX
Source Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Source Channels: 2
Source Bitrate: 63 kbits

Lossless Encode: Yes
Encoded Codec: AAC / M4B
Encoded Sample Rate: 22050 Hz
Encoded Channels: 2
Encoded Bitrate: 63 kbits

Ripper: inAudible 1.91

Book Description
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Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia…. In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia’s past, from megafauna to Macquarie - the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of ‘felony of sock’, and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia. It recounts the misfortunes of the escaped Irish convicts who set out to walk from Sydney to China, guided only by a hand-drawn paper compass, and explains the role of the coconut in Australia’s only military coup. Our nation’s beginnings are steeped in the strange, the ridiculous, and the frankly bizarre. Girt proudly reclaims these stories for all of us. Not to listen to it would be un-Australian.