The land before avocado, journeys in a lost Australia, Richard Glover
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The land before avocado, journeys in a lost Australia, Richard Glover
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index
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contains biographical information
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portraitsillustrations
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no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The land before avocado
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Richard Glover
Sub title
journeys in a lost Australia
Summary
There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and now and then surprisingly appealing. It's the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s. Let's break the news now: they didn't have avocado. It's a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes, often enshrined in law, towards anybody who didn't fit in. The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago. Most of all, it will make you realise just how far we've come, and how much further we can go
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- Nineteen sixties -- Australia
- Australian
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Glover, Richard
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-1965
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Radio broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-
- Glover, Richard -- Family
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1965-1972
- Nineteen seventies -- Australia
- Glover, Richard -- Childhood and youth
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- Subject13
- Nineteen sixties -- Australia
- Australian
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Glover, Richard
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-1965
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Radio broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-
- Glover, Richard -- Family
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1965-1972
- Nineteen seventies -- Australia
- Glover, Richard -- Childhood and youth
- Content2
- Author1