GIRT: THE UNAUTHORISED HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA
Book ID/图书代码： 01899513B64102
English Summary/英文概要： Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...
In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia’s past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.
Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: ’It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are all true, they all happened.’ In Girt, Hunt uncovers these beautiful lies, recounting the strange and ridiculous episodes that conventional histories ignore. The result is surprising, enlightening – and side-splittingly funny.
Girt explains the role of the coconut in Australia’s only military coup, the Dutch obsession with nailing perfectly good kitchenware to posts, and the settlers’ fear of Pemulwuy and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamingcoat.
It introduces us to forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the typically Irish crime of ’felony of sock’; Patyegarang, the young Eora girl who co-authored the world’s most surprising dictionary; and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.
Our nation’s beginnings were steeped in the unlikely, the incongruous and the frankly bizarre. Girt restores these stories to their rightful place. Not to read it would be un-Australian.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 除了用“环顾”这个词，实在没有别的词可以形容澳大利亚的本质了。
这段搞笑的历史中，David Hunt 讲述了从巨型动物群到麦夸里河这段澳大利亚真实的故事，错误与好奇，被遗忘的反常和灵光一闪使我们成了现在这样。马克吐温这样描述澳大利亚的历史：“它读起来根本不像历史，而更像是魅力的谎言，可他们都是真实的，都发生了。”在本书中，Hunt还原了这些美丽的谎言，叙述了忽视了传统历史的奇妙荒诞的事件，结果令人惊讶而又有趣，并且带有一定的启发性。
这本书讲述了椰子在澳大利亚唯一的军事政变中的作用，荷兰人沉迷于发表最好的厨具的文章，居民们害怕Pemulwuy和他令人惊讶的彩色梦幻外套。
这本书还向我们介绍了那些被遗忘的英雄们，如 Mary McLoghlin，因为他的典型爱尔兰式的运输而犯了“袜子重罪”；Patyegarang这位小姑娘虽然是一名年轻的风湿患者，却合著了世界上最令人惊讶的字典；还有一只叫Trim的猫咪，打败了一只法国猴子成为第一个环游澳大利亚的动物。
我们国家的起源充满了不可能的、不协调的和坦率的奇异中。Girt这本书恢复了这些故事的应有位置，没读过这本书的人都不能称之为澳大利亚人。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“这是一本狡猾的书，让人震惊地看到掩藏在澳大利亚历史的肮脏的遮羞布下面的东西”——John Birmingham
“滑稽和洞察力——以荒诞而敏锐的视角，加上完美的漫画措辞。Hunt在澳大利亚历史中钻了一口深井，自从Keith Windschuttle之后鲜有历史学家让我笑成这样了”——Chris Taylor
澳大利亚的历史从来没有这么描述！他的幽默下是基于广泛调研的有趣研究，已经连根拔起了一些鲜为人知的历史宝藏。喜欢John Birmingham的利维坦的恋人这种一直追着讽刺的风格和 John Clarke式的幽默的读者将会被Girt这本书深深吸引，并且为了下一期翘首企盼
Out in ANZ in November 2021, the long awaited third book in the bestselling Girt series, Girt Nation is the laugh-out-loud book of 2021…
World ex film/TV rights available to one of Australia’s all-time bestselling history series, Girt: The Unauthorised History of Australia by award-winning author, David Hunt
“David Hunt’s Girt series of books has sold over 90k copies across its two titles (Girt and True Girt) since release to date. The first title, Girt, published in 2013 was the second bestselling title of the year in BookScan’s History category […] True Girt, the 2016 follow up, reached fourth place for the year overall in History within three months of sale.”—Bianca Whiteley, Territory Manager of Nielsen Book Australia
•Winner, 2014 Indie Award for Non-Fiction
•Shortlisted, 2014 ABA Nielsen BookData Bookseller’s Choice Award.
•Shortlisted, Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2014 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
•Shortlisted, General Non-Fiction Prize at the 2014 Australian Book Industry Awards.
•Best Books of 2013 - iBooks
•Best Books of 2013 - Herald Sun
"A sneaky, sometimes shocking peek under the dirty rug of Australian history." - John Birmingham
"Hilarious and insightful -- with a keen eye for the absurd, coupled with impeccable comic phrasing, Hunt has found the deep wells of humour in Australia’s history. Not since Keith Windschuttle has an historian made me laugh so much."- Chris Taylor
‘Australian history never looked like this! Beneath the humour is an interesting analysis backed by extensive research, which has uprooted some little-known historical gems. Girt will appeal to readers who enjoyed John Birmingham’s Leviathan as much as lovers of Chaser-style satire and the humour of John Clarke … and leaves this reader hoping there will be further instalments.’ - Books+Publishing
About the Author/作者介绍： David Hunt是一名异乎寻常的高大英俊的男人，他喜欢为他所写的书都亲自写传记.
DAVID HUNT is an unusually tall and handsome man who likes writing his own biographical notes. He is the author of the bestselling Girt and True Girt, as well as two books for children. David is also a television presenter and podcaster, and has a birthmark that looks like Tasmania, only smaller and not as far south.
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