Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With brief text (59 pp.), 208 photographs (mostly of the square-rigger Parma, on which he sailed in 1933), he tells the soon-to-be-historic story of the dwindling fleet that still annually rounds the Horn on the long passage from Australia to England...
...included greetings to King George from a dairy farmer in New Zealand, a lumberjack in the Canadian woods, an Army pensioner in London, a tea merchant on his Indian plantation, et al. Sandwiched in were what the announcer called "an eyewitness description of surf bathing at Bondi Beach" in Australia and "the voices of children romping in the botanical gardens at Melbourne...
...Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...
Duped like millions of his subjects was George V who listened in when not broadcasting. To Australia's fresh exposure of perfidious Albion, His Majesty was said by courtiers to have reacted with the saltiest of his salty oaths...
...Canberra, the bleak inland capital that has already cost Australia more than $50,000,000, a "southerly burster" caught up with Gloucester, raised floods that temporarily marooned him in Great House, gave him a case of catarrh. He had to cancel a few engagements with the "outback country...