The Land Before Avocado
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The Land Before Avocado
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Richard Glover
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Richard Glover
About this listen
The new book from the best-selling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come.
There’s plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It’s a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and now and then surprisingly appealing. It’s the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s.
Let’s break the news now: they didn’t have avocado. It’s a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes - often enshrined in law - towards anybody who didn’t fit in.
The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were not so long ago. Most of all, it will make you realise just how far we’ve come - and how much further we can go.
©2018 Richard Glover (P)2018 BolindaWhat listeners say about The Land Before Avocado
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- Mr Russell G Mitchell
- 18-07-2022
Incitful with good humour and well researched.
Incitfully writtten with good humour; i loved it. And so well researched from beginning to end.
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- Daylan
- 17-03-2019
Funny look back in time
Light hearted but entertaining look back in Australia’s history. Like a funnier Australian version of Truthfulness or Enlightenment now. A fun listen with some laugh out loud moments and great factoids. You can tell the author had a lot of fun writing this one.
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- Mrs. Cheryl E. Stewart
- 30-01-2019
So nostalgic
A great laugh for us in the post war generation. Our own kuds don't believe it.
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- Anne
- 23-05-2022
Brilliant
Absolutely loved this trip back in time. Some was sad, some hilarious & some controversial but overall thoroughly enjoyabe
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- Josh Button
- 24-11-2022
We're Better Off Now
We live longer and the food is better. Just missing the bit about sport being safer and more skillful. Well researched with excellent narration from the author.
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- LAURIE FAEN
- 07-11-2018
A wonderful exploration of “us”
So many memories, thoughts and reflection on Australia’s journey to now. A serious study, cleverly disguised as a lighthearted comedy.
Richard is a master of that genre.
Highly recommend this to anyone who survived the 60’s -70’s or anybody interested in evolution.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-2019
Very funny and such a great window into the past.
Easy to listen to and very funny. Reminded me a lot of stories my mother had told me about the 70s.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-2019
Revisiting the land before avocado!
As a late baby boomer, born in 1962, emigrating to Aus in 1968 (as a ten pound 'Pom' with my folks) and spending most of my youth in the Hawkesbury Region of Sydney, this book was a real nostalgic treat! I laughed out loud often. I enjoyed and was amazed by the stats., facts and thorough research that has gone into the book also. Thanks Richard Glover. I have recommended your book to my two, twenty something children. 😜 Five stars from me. Highly recommended!
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- Carol
- 01-10-2020
Hilariously tragic
Apart from some mispronunciations i.e. marshMELLOWS instead of marshMALLOWS, this gave my daughters an insight as to why their parents are they way we are 😉😹 A lot of stats I didn’t know and a lot of memories that I did. Highly recommended
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- Pam G
- 13-11-2018
OPTIMISM GALORE
How easy it is for me to sound like an old lady at 65 and go on a winge about the good old days. But no more! Richard, you have rocked my world. Out goes the complacency and in comes a truckload of gratitude and optimism. A wonderful look at Australia now and in the 70s. Well researched, extremely funny and full of memorable information. Loved it!
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