Strange Country

As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin in Good Weekend magazine knows, he's one of our funniest, most acute observers of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia - a country that's eccentric, puzzlingm big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad. From camel wars to the last travelling boxing tent to women who talk to angels and the annual Parkes' Elvis Festival, his writing illuminates the stranger side of Australian life in a travel book like no other.