TY  - BOOK
AU  - McGirr,Michael
TI  - Bypass: the story of a road 
SN  - 9781922330888 (pbk.)
U1  - 919.4047 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - McGirr, Michael,
KW  - Bicycle touring
KW  - Biography
KW  - Anecdotes
KW  - Authors, Australian
KW  - Cycling
KW  - New South Wales
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Roads
KW  - History
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Hume Highway (N.S.W. and Vic.)
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - A classic in its own right, this personal and public memoir by one of Australia's most observant and genial writers graces our bookshelves once again. Forty and flabby, Michael McGirr hits the Hume Highway on a cheap bicycle. Having stopped working as a Jesuit priest, he is on a quest to find heaven knows what. Along the way, he is joined by Jenny. Bypass is the story of Australia's main street, the much-unloved highway between Sydney and Melbourne. The Hume has plenty of tales to tell - of bushrangers and bus drivers, publicans and poets, runners and refugees - and McGirr discovers he has one to add to the swag. The road is a source of wisdom and comedy, and maybe even a fine romance
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