Aussie Etiket: Or Doing Things the Aussie Way

Australia: Ure Smith. Very Good. 1988. Reprint. Decorative Illustrated Boards. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 072540602X Hardback Hardback.A few years ago the author wrote a book called Aussie English. His idea was to help newcomers tell a ringer from a ring-in, a cockatoo from a galah, a blue from a bluey, and to understand the real meaning of a greeting such as 'Hullo, y'old bastard'. Naturally the book was a great success, but over 100,000 readers were left in a quandary. They had mastered the language, but ho could they learn to use it correctly in day-to-day situations? They asked, 'Is there an etiquette (or etiket) for doing things the Aussie way? So, here it is, John O'Grady's Azussie etiket, an extremely amusing mixture of tongue-in-cheek and helpful information, with brilliant assistance from Frank Benier. Illustrated. Illustrated laminated boards. 87 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .