Best Australian drinking stories.

Best Australian drinking stories.

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Author / Creator:Haynes, Jim.
Imprint:Crows Nest, N.S.W., ALLEN & UNWIN, 2018.
Description:xvii, 268 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Australia -- History.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects -- Australia.
Alcohol -- Australia -- Anecdotes.
Alcohol -- Australia -- History.
Alcohol.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Social aspects.
Manners and customs.
Australia -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Australia.
Anecdotes.
History.
Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11905092
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ISBN:1760632902
9781760632908
Summary:Rum, beer, scotch, wine, beer and more beer. For nearly 250 years Australian history has been punctuated with stories of booze and boozing. From Cook's voyages and the First Fleet to the Rum Rebellion, the mutiny of the 99th Regiment, the soldiers' riot of 1916, six o'clock closing and beyond, we've been a nation that likes a drink. With the eye of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes has collected the best yarns, verses, stories and anecdotes of our boozy history.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • A Toast to Temperance
  • Section 1. A National Pastime
  • The Alcoholics' Creed
  • The Alcoholic History of Australia
  • I Allus Has Wan at Eleven
  • One Hundred Stubbies
  • The Fellow from Sydney
  • The Man Who Stole Nine Chooks...
  • Sweeney
  • A Letter to The Bulletin
  • The Promise
  • Anzac Night in the Gardens
  • Lifespan
  • The 99th Regiment Are Revolting
  • You Can't Take It with You
  • Mr Sloove's Speech
  • The Convicts' Rum Song
  • Section 2. Under the Influence
  • When Is a Man Drunk?
  • Snakes and Alcohol
  • Drunks
  • The Valentine's Day Mutiny
  • Lines on Ale
  • There's a Patron Saint of Drunks
  • Tim Dooley
  • The Final Meeting of the Book Club
  • Over the Wine
  • The Lobster and the Lioness
  • 'Doogan'
  • The Evening before Leaving Home
  • Wonderful Love
  • The Mixture as Never Before
  • Her Dying Wish
  • Section 3. Pubs
  • The Drinkers' Hymn
  • Aussie Pubs
  • The Local Pub
  • A Bush Publican's Lament
  • The Publican at the Pearly Gate
  • Six O'clock Madness
  • The Overflow
  • Where the Cooler Bars Grow
  • The Shanty by the Way
  • Charlie's Story
  • The Glass on the Bar
  • The Six O'clock Swells
  • The Precious Word
  • The Day the Pub Didn't Burn Down
  • The Old 'White Horse
  • Section 4. Hangovers
  • The Morning After
  • The Drunken Kangaroo
  • Trouble Brewing
  • Champagne after the Races
  • My Wife
  • My First Literary Lunch
  • Moderation
  • Thin Ice
  • McCarthy's Brew
  • Court Day at Billy Billy
  • A Rum Complaint
  • A Journalists Funeral
  • The Pints That I've Refused
  • Drinks with a Kick in Them
  • Bluey Brink
  • How Sexy Rex Cleared the Bar
  • A Song of Light
  • Acknowledgements
Gift of Belle Friedman bookplate

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