Mango Country. A Journey Beyond The Brochures Of Tropical Queensland

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 296 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy. The only exception is a small inscription to the inside page.

Publishers Description: Funny, personal, completely unexpected travel writing, and an incisive view into Australian life away from the big citiesMango Country explores the notion that the further you venture from a nation's capital, the likelier you are to encounter its culture in the raw.Journeying around North Queensland, jungle tour-guide turned gonzo-journalist John van Tiggelen lingers in places that tourists are ill-advised, disinclined or simply unable to visit. He goes crocodile hunting, shoots a nude calendar for charity, joins the world's wildest cricket carnival, attends the opening of the Big Mango and flits around the Torres Strait on a wing and a prayer. En route he is harassed by cassowaries, bush poets, thong collectors, falling coconuts, numerous drunks, Bob Katter, the president of the Country Women's Association and the alien commander of 18 million spaceships, among others. But he also harasses them.At one level Mango Country is an irreverent profile of a province, but John van Tiggelen's perspective provides something deeper, too: a portrait of Australia in extremis.

ISBN: 9780732911935