A cola company uses the last wild polar bears as billboards. A boy is forced to compose poems for cats. A dog starts a race riot. A zebra shames two armies. A zoologist vivisects a gorilla to disprove evolution and has his own brain placed in the ape’s head. In New Guinea, zookeepers eat their exhibits. In Gippsland, the face of the Lord appears on dairy cows. In the Western Desert, mummified egg-bandits hang from trees …
Pepsi Bears hilariously exposes the nature of man as he pilots Mother Earth into oblivion, while the other species wryly look on.
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Boyhoodlum
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Cameron, Anson, 1961– author.
Boyhoodlum/Anson Cameron.
ISBN 978 0 85798 501 9 (ebook)
Cameron, Anson, 1961–
Childhood and youth.
Authors, Australian – Victoria – Biography.
A823.3
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Cover photograph: S. Braswell
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