Rip Off!: Australian Fraud, Deception and Dirty Tricks.
by Taylor, Paul
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 1742481272
- ISBN 13
- 9781742481272
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About This Item
Melbourne, Scoresby: Five Mile Press, 2011. Paperback octavo, good plus condition, black & white photos, front cover creased, bottom corner tips covers creased, crease in front cover, some edgewear. 250 pp. In 33 wide-ranging chapters, Paul Taylor examines some of Australia's best-known (some very surprising) rip offs: defined broadly to include frauds, hoaxes, shams, deceptions and stings. Includes Field Marshal Blamey, Al Grassby, The Dismissal, of Gough Whitlam, Fine Cotton, Francis de Groot, Frank Hardy, Wilfred Burchett, Horrie the Wog Dog, the Gallipoli withdrawal. And the strange case of Daisy Bates who married Breaker Morant.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27617
- Title
- Rip Off!: Australian Fraud, Deception and Dirty Tricks.
- Author
- Taylor, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1742481272
- ISBN 13
- 9781742481272
- Publisher
- Five Mile Press
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Scoresby
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- australian society, australian history, criminology, corruption
- Bookseller catalogs
- CRIMINOLOGY;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
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