https://www.facebook.com/TracesMag/photos/a.262237540469159/5905038176189039/?type=3**Traces Magazine subscribers only**Happy Friday Traces readers! It's time for our weekly Friday Book Giveaway!
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This week's chosen book is from our friends at Wakefield Press: Arcadian Adelaide, written by Thistle Anderson.
Scottish actress Thistle Anderson's firecracker of a polemic against her adopted hometown of Adelaide, published to roars of outrage and laughter in 1905, proves beyond doubt that people of the past were - just like us - fond of a good piss-take.
This barbed satirical spray reveals the City of Churches as 'less holy than might be supposed', with more opium dens and prostitutes per capita than Melbourne, wines that are 'the worst ever made' (!), the local men 'caricatures' with inferior facial hair, the local women 'cats'. Thistle’s fondness is reserved for the fruit, the flour, the cabmen ... and the return ticket to Melbourne.
This hilarious little volume, intended by its author as 'a playful skit', is to be taken with a pinch of salt ... or perhaps savoured, stubbornly, with a glass of excellent Adelaide wine.
To enter: Like the post, tag a friend and tell us in the comments section: "What is your favourite history book?"
Entries close Monday 15 March 5pm AEST. Australian entrants only. Traces Magazine subscribers only. Winner will be announced via Facebook on Wednesday 17 March.
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