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Fair Dinkum! Aussie Slang by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. When we use slang, we're connecting with the diggers in the villages of France ordering a vin blanc ('plonk') and the Indigenous Dharug-speakers of Sydney locating one another ...Show more
Fair Dinkum!: Aussie Slang by H.G Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australiana
Australian slang unites the true blue and the dinky-di and separates the cheeky little possums from the happy little Vegemites. In this attractive new pictorial guide, readers will learn to distinguish their drongos from their dropkicks and discover where our unique vernacular comes from.Discover the co ...Show more
My Life in Shorts: Growing Pains and Painful Growths - Memoirs of a Barossa Childhood by H.G. Nelson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
H.G. Nelson - Australia's foremost sports commentator, cultural critic, social observer and loud-mouthed heckler - is a legend of the tinny transistor and the small screen. But who exactly is the man behind the mike? Where did he come from? Why is he here? In this astonishing memoir, H.G. takes us back ...Show more
Stoked!: Winners and Grinners from Our Sporting Life by H. G. Nelson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
There’s nothing Australians love better than a sporting hero, except perhaps giving that hero a gentle ribbing for having the temerity to outstrip the rest of us. From the Jumping Doc and his ‘Peltzer flinch’ to late nineteenth century fashion on the field (knitted jumper, anyone?), the great H.G. ‘batt ...Show more
The Fairytale: A real and imagined history of Australian sport by H.G. Nelson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Sport & Fitness
A sporting nation is only limited by its imagination. Every time this story is told it changes; something is always added, embellished or dropped from the run-on side. For more than thirty years, H.G. Nelson has been finding the poetry in the punt and humour during half-time. Now, he turns his keen eye ...Show more
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