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Published by Hamish Hamilton, Sydney NSW, 2017
ISBN 10: 0143787071ISBN 13: 9780143787075
Seller: Book Merchant Bookstore, Bunbury, WA, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has stamped inside page.Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in western Victoria. Together they enter the Redex Trial, a brutal race around the ancient continent over roads no car will ever quite survive.With them is their lanky fair-haired navigator, Willie Bachhuber, a quiz show champion and failed schoolteacher whose job it is to call out the turns, the grids, the creek crossings on a map that will finally remove them, without warning, from the lily-white Australia they know so well.This thrilling, high-speed story starts in one way and then takes you someplace else. It is often funny, the more so as the world gets stranger, and always a page-turner, even as you learn a history these characters never knew themselves.Set in the 1950s amid the consequences of the age of empires, this brilliantly vivid and lively novel reminds us of how Europeans took possession of a timeless culture - the high purpose they invented and the crimes they committed along the way. (back cover).
Published by Hamish Hamilton, Sydney NSW, 2015
ISBN 10: 1926428579ISBN 13: 9781926428574
Seller: Book Merchant Bookstore, Bunbury, WA, Australia
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor edgewear. Previous owner has signed inside page. Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was followed by a fifty-year bust as we lost our luck, our riches and our nerve, and shut our doors on the world. Now we're back on top, in the position where history tells us we made our biggest mistakes. Can we learn from our past and cement our place as one of the world's great nations? (back cover).