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    Everything You Didn't Need to Know About Australia

    By Adam Ward

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    The pitfalls of throwing a boomerang, the world’s first feature film (1906), the largest coral reef in the world — these are just some of the subjects in this lively fact book sampling every aspect of Australian culture. Answers to such pesky questions as "Who holds the Australian Test Cricket team in-flight beer drinking record?" and "How do you play a didgeridoo?" provide hours of fun for tourists and armchair travelers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOmnibus Press
    Release dateMar 15, 2010
    ISBN9780857121592
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