Book description
Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo in
Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old
Australia, a place where humans never venture, and animals still rule.
Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback - not the ideal
habitat for a water-loving animal - but now he's lost and close to
death. He's saved, though, by Jack, a pyromaniac, sardine-loving wombat,
who promptly gets him into even worse trouble taking him to a
marsupial-only bar run by a kangaroo called O'Hanlin, getting him drunk
and then burning the bar down. And this is just the beginning of
Albert's adventure ... A glorious romp of a novel, Albert of Adelaide is
a story of friendship, loyalty and heroism. And marsupials. Pacy and
poignant, it's completely original -- a book for people (and animals) of
all ages. Albert is a duck-billed platypus, who has escaped from a zoo
in Adelaide to look for somewhere that may, or may not, exist: Old
Australia, a place where humans never venture, and animals still rule.
Albert knows it's somewhere in the middle of the Outback - not the ideal
habitat for a water-loving animal - but now he's lost and close to
death. He's saved, though, by Jack, a pyromaniac, sardine-loving wombat,
who promptly gets him into even worse trouble taking him to a
marsupial-only bar run by a kangaroo called O'Hanlin, getting him drunk
and then burning the bar down. And this is just the beginning of
Albert's adventure ... A glorious romp of a novel, Albert of Adelaide is
a story of friendship, loyalty and heroism. And marsupials. Pacy and
poignant, it's completely original -- a book for people (and animals) of
all ages.
