Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Sneering

I have recently started to use Audible. I'm currently listening to True Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 2, by David Hunt. I read the print version of the first volume, but wanted to save time, and have enough books to read as it is. The blurb describes Hunt's work as "side splitting."

If you are are inclined towards chronological snobbery, are amused by cheap shots at conservative newspaper columnists, and enjoy hearing Christians (whether clergy, missionaries, or laity) being bagged out, you might get the odd belly laugh out of reading this.

To be fair, I did smile when Hunt wrote about the book that has the longest title of any book ever published in the history of Australia, and has been causing library cataloguers grief ever since. William Wentworth (1790-1872) was a noted explorer, journalist, and politician. The electorate of Wentworth, currently held by our beloved Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is named after him. In 1819, Wentworth published (deep breath): A Statistical, historical, and political description of the colony of New South Wales, and its dependent settlements in Van Diemen's Land: with a particular enumeration of the advantages which these colonies offer for emigration, and their superiority in many respects over those possessed by the United States of America. (Exhale).

Wentworth's work is readily available from both bricks and mortar and online bookstores, as is David Hunt's.

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