In The Land Of Oz Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9781408825105, 9781608198955, 1408825104, 1608198952 instant download after payment.

The book is not a history of Australia, nor is it an analysis of
the Australian character, though it is impossible to travel in the
far north or west of the country without walking straight into
the heartbreak of white Australian/Aboriginal relations.
Watching Ghostbusters on television in the Aboriginal commu¬
nity of Areyonga, a paradisal ruin 200 kilometres or so west of
Alice Springs, was the funniest and saddest experience of the
whole journey. Faced with the realities of Aboriginal squalor,
you have no choice but to think politically.As I travelled I recorded, sitting in the back of a camper van
or in a motel room every night, writing down everything I’d
seen and heard. Where possible I took public transport. You
don’t learn much about a place by flying over it. My most vivid
memory is of sitting in buses for days at a time, stopping at
roadhouses from which I never expected to escape alive, listen¬
ing to one driver after another enunciate his philosophy of
manliness and mateship, encountering Australians of every age
and with every reason for being on the road themselves, watch¬
ing the eagles glide and the earth turn red. There is no more
variously beautiful country. This book is a record of the near
anguish I felt the whole time I was there. The only way I can
describe that briefly is to say it stabs the heart.