101 Facts about Australia History - Culture - Nature - Curiosities
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.10.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
138
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/0.8 cm
Gewicht
196 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798161947012
A country everyone believes they already know.Australia's deadliest animal is a horse: 222 deaths in twenty years, against 39 from sharks. The most venomous snake in the world lives there and has never killed anybody. The Twelve Apostles were never twelve - seven are still standing. And the oldest known boomerang comes from a cave in Poland.
101 facts. Each on a page of its own.Made for opening anywhere, sorted into six chapters:
- Geography & Nature - the oldest mineral on Earth, a continent moving three inches a year, a coastline with no fixed length
- History & Archaeology - the oldest cremation in the world, 806 convict ships, a test designed to be failed
- People, Language & Cities - a capital born of an argument, more than 150 Indigenous languages, 5,000 diminutives
- Animals, Venom & Curiosities - the platypus with no stomach, cube-shaped wombat droppings, a moth that navigates by starlight
- Food & Drink - a spread made from brewery waste, the pavlova dispute, vines the phylloxera never found
- Economy, Records & Everyday Life - Wi-Fi out of radio astronomy, the largest cattle station on Earth, money made of plastic
>Checked, not copied.
>With a country profile, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.
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