Quiz time

[Shedhand]

don't know many. Alexader Dumas and Jean-Paul Satre. I'll go for Satre?

[Bleedin Thumb]

The Broadway musical sounds like Victor Hugo.
The only thing I know of his is les Miserables.

Edit : or it could be Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux ( I had to google to get the author)

Damn you Andrew Lloyd Webber!

[Tex B]

Victor Hugo, Les Mis. You get the golden prize, Bleedin.

Gave away too much in the hints i reckon.

FWIW, Les Miserables is the only fiction book I've ever read more than once. Bit slow at first, but what a fantastic story. Highly recommend it.

And I'm not sure I'd want to see a broadway musical of something written by Sartre

Tex

PS. Hugo also wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame

[Bleedin Thumb]

Gave away too much in the hints i reckon.

Yeah, there aren't too many French based Broadway Musicals, mind you I forgot about ol Hunchie did Mr Webber have a go at him too?


Anyway What Aussie novel is set mostly inside the Southern Cross Hotel and acurately describes pub culture and its colourful inhabitants.

Written Mid 70's.

The title is a vehicle that will transport you away from your worries.

[Shedhand]

Yeah, there aren't too many French based Broadway Musicals, mind you I forgot about ol Hunchie did Mr Webber have a go at him too?


Anyway What Aussie novel is set mostly inside the Southern Cross Hotel and acurately describes pub culture and its colourful inhabitants.

Written Mid 70's.

The title is a vehicle that will transport you away from your worries.

"Wife Swap" (joking), Don's Party the serious shot.

[Bleedin Thumb]

Nah Sheddie.
Next clue.

The title is also a symbolic reference to a schooner of beer.

EDIT or a pot of beer if you live in Qld, what do mexicans call it ? Twinkie? Thimble?

[Andy Mac]

Glass Canoe by David Ireland

[Bleedin Thumb]

Glass Canoe by David Ireland

Well done Mr Mac That was the one I was after - a very good read too I might add.

Over to you........

[Andy Mac]

a very good read too I might add. Over to you........

Thanks BT,
It was a good read, and I also enjoyed his Unknown Industrial Prisoner, most of his books really... Alright it seems to be a book theme here.
An English gardener, wrote a (non-fiction) book in Australia in the middle of the 1800's; tree lover and comrade of a well known horse eater. Who was he and what was the book?

Cheers,

[Andy Mac]

Clues: As inspector of forests, he warned the govt. that red cedar would be commercially extinct at the current rate of logging. Also discovered the only Australian species of beech; and several plants were named after him.

Cheers,

[Bleedin Thumb]

I was going to say Syms Covington aka Charles Darwins bag man but inspector of forests sounds like it could have been Allan Cunningham or Von Mueller.

[Andy Mac]

Getting warmer....

[AlexS]

James Backhouse? And the book "The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843"?

I'm guessing that the reference to a horse eater refers to the diet on this voyage?

[Andy Mac]

No Alex, but you're on the right track about emergency food supplies! He was involved in exploration....and NSW was a lot bigger back then.

Cheers,

[silentC]

I thought horse eater was a slang term for Frenchman?