Outback Towns And Pubs

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books/Harper Collins
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 298 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: Bill Swampy Marsh has been on another adventure, this time gathering stories from outback towns and pubs across this wide brown land. The people youll meet will touch your heart as Swampy brings to life all the drama and delight of life in outback Australia. Theres the story of Frederick Aloysius Millard, the only dog ever to become a member of a Citizens Club in Australia, thanks to the vote of a woman who was sure shed been introduced to this eccentric man twenty years back; the man who refused to go to the doctor after being shot, because hed been hit in a very unfortunate spot ... which made it obvious hed been shot while running away; the unfortunate bloke who tried to blow a snake out of the dunny but ended up nearly taking himself out of existence ... if theres a good story out there, Swampys captured it for this book. Long after the last tale has been told, youll still hear laughter from the pub, the crash of a drunken donkey falling in a trench and recall the time ... they found this bloke, sitting in the main street at 3 oclock in the morning, hammering one of those survey pegs in the ground. So they said, What the hell are you doing And this drunk feller replies, Im driving a peg inta the arsehole of the world. Awarding-winning writer Bill Swampy Marsh collects yarns that get us in, hook, line and sinker. He gives us back our childhood and shares those precious memories of an Australia thats passing into legend.

ISBN: 9780733324529