{"product_id":"9781742623689","title":"Strange Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains who ought to be locked up.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in \u003ci\u003eGood Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStrange Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia - a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nostalgic and sometimes just plain mad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the last travelling boxing tent to feral urban sewer rats to Vietnam Veteran bikies and the annual Parkes Elvis Festival, his writing illuminates the stranger side of Australian life in a travel book like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan Australia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149962199280,"sku":"9781742623689","price":15.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781742623689_p0.jpg?v=1763703404","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781742623689","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}