Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia

Strange Country: Travels in a Very Different Australia

3.25 of 5 stars 3.25  ·  rating details  ·  28 ratings  ·  6 reviews
As anyone who has ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia - a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad. From the last travelling boxing te...more
Paperback, 370 pages
Published November 1st 2008 by Pan MacMillan
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Mia
Interesting and different take on travel in Australia although I didn't care too much for the writer's "voice"
Jacinta
Laughed me fucking head off. Love your work Dapin!
Jane
May 18, 2013 Jane rated it 2 of 5 stars
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Ho hum.
Amanda
Note - this is not a travel guide. It is a journey through some of the more eccentric places in Australia where some strange people dwell!

Mark Dapin is a journalist and many of the pieces were commissioned by newspaper weekend magazines. It's an amusing read.
Katie
Hilarious so far!
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