100 weirdest tales from across Australia
Pobjie, Ben2023
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Tales of the strange, unnerving and downright bizarre from one of the weirdest places on Earth. Fish falling out of the sky, joggers relieving themselves on your doorstep, mysterious monsters constantly springing from the shadows, spooky lights and ill-conceived toast spreads: these are just some of the things you can expect on any given day in our surreal southern land. In 100 Weirdest Tales from Across Australia, comedy writer and accredited weirdness expert Ben Pobjie delves deep into Australia's past and present to serve up the weirdest stories of all, which will leave you smacking your gob with one hand while scratching your head with the other.
Main title:
100 weirdest tales from across Australia / Ben Pobjie.
Author:
Pobjie, Ben, author
Imprint:
South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2023.©2023
Collation:
280 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 24 cm.
Contents:
IntroductionThe One-Sided DeciderThe Tragedy of the Beaten FavouriteThe Spectral Sailor of Armit IslandThe Peculiarities of Piscine PrecipitationThat Sinking FeelingThe Hermetic Hermit of Deliverance IslandThe Pride of Prince LeonardThe Suspicious Saga of the Frantic FlyerThe Wacky World of White AustraliaArthur's Hair-Raising TaleThe Coital CorpsesThe Horror of Hook IslandThe Mystifying Myth of the Marree ManThe Part-Time LakeJurassic ArkThe Parable of the Prime Minister's TrousersThe Lady of the SwampThe Kingdom of the Kelly SkullThe Legend of the Glowing CrossThe Land of SubmarinesThe Burrawang BunyipThe Peculiar Puzzle of the Pyjama Girl The Weeping Woman CaperRain HarderThe Perplexity of the Poo Jogger The Fairlie Odd WomanThe Curse of the Headless AngelThe Somerton ManThe Walking ZooMr Brown's Big Bucks BombGnomesvilleThe Rise and Fall of the Great ConinghamGone to the DogsLatin AustraliaFull-Contact CricketThe Great Emu WarThe Bloody BataviaThe Lost ColonyThe Sound of the UndergroundThe Mahogany ShipThe History of the Hairy FolkOl' Blue Eyes Hits BackThe Black Cats of the BushThe Day the Bat ClangedGive Me a Home Where the Fluorescent Slugs RoamThe Great-Explorer Dust-upThe Yowie of YoreThe Midday RumbleThe Moist Mystery of Harold HoltThe Gay Blade of the Harbour BridgeThe Amazing Disappearing KøbenhavnGet to the ChopperLooking Through a Raw OnionRunning Up That HillThe Rough EndPyramid SchemeBilly Runs Out of PuffNow We're CookingGetting to the Bottom of ThingsWhere There's a Wills, There's a BurkeMorrison's MultiplicityThe Ineffability of YeastThe Yowie TodayBlood on the BoydThe Mystical Land of AtlantiumLa-la-la-la LolaMoomba BoomThe Batsmen's Boardroom BrawlThe Singular Saga of the Scareships Mowing Down TyrannyThe Wild World of Wurdi Youang The Wild World of Wurdi Youang The Lofty Land Rover of KeithThe Terrible Tiger of Bulli Mountain The Wailing WaterholeThe Mournful Mystery of the MadagascarThe Mystifying Min MinThe Devil and the GravediggerThe Citadel of the Central HighlandsA Most Cunning ManBirdman, or the Unexpected Virtues of WetnessThe Persistent Poltergeist of Guyra The Island That Isn'tA Hard Road to HoaxThe Lost WhalemenThe Missing MaceThe Boy AnzacThe Hanged ManThe Ghosting of the General GrantThe Misplaced MikiriThe Baffling FaceWhere There's Smoke, There's an OrangutanThe Prince's Perilous PlungeCastle of the DollsThe Girl in the CupboardThe Bush RoarsThis Effing LadyThe Bloody BridgeThe Occasional Crimes of Long HarryUnder the OddsAcknowledgements.
ISBN:
9781922930071 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994 POB994
Language:
English
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BRN:
79510
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