Girt: The Unauthorized History of Australia by David Hunt

Girt: The Unauthorized History of Australia by David HuntGirt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth 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. Girt introduces forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the crime of "felony of sock", and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to

along with a surge in cat diseases and numbers of feral cats and sick

moving and often shocking memoir

and they speak to many lives lived

He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive

and prevent it

they see some very strange things

By the following winter solstice

This sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family and threatens to stay until they no longer need him

Desperate to broker peace

Lila has recently married and made her entree into the family business

} Author Ezekiel Kwaymullina says

If civilization was lost