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y separately published work icon Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil single work   autobiography   adventure   humour  
Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil
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'At forty years old, a successful writer, husband and father, no longer toiling on offshore drilling rigs, was Paul Carter happily nestled in the cotton wool of suburban life enjoying the fruits of his labour? ...

'With his manic life left far behind and the perfect opportunity to take it easy stretched before him what else would a middle-aged, bike obsessed, man want?

'Yes, that's right, he'd want to be the first guy to ride around Australia on an underpowered experimental motorcycle that runs on used cooking oil, wouldn't he? Preferably without getting hit by a semi-trailer full of bridge parts. Is he out of his mind? Quite possibly.

'Embark on a rollickingly, downright dangerous and often unhinged quest that starts on an environmentally friendly motorcycle built on a shoestring budget by students, and ends with a plan to break the motorcycle land speed record for bio fuel.

'Carter is back to his old balls-to-the-wall style of writing, prepare to laugh out loud.' (From the publisher's website.)

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2010 .
      person or book cover
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      Extent: 266p., [8]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus. (some col.), map, col. ports
      ISBN: 9781741757026 (pbk.)
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Untitled Clive Tilsley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 40)
— Review of Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil Paul Carter , 2010 single work autobiography
Armchair Journey Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 5) The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 November 2010; (p. 5)
— Review of Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil Paul Carter , 2010 single work autobiography
Armchair Journey Bruce Elder , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 5) The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 November 2010; (p. 5)
— Review of Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil Paul Carter , 2010 single work autobiography
Untitled Clive Tilsley , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , November vol. 90 no. 4 2010; (p. 40)
— Review of Is That Thing Diesel? : One Man, One Bike and the First Lap around Australia on Used Cooking Oil Paul Carter , 2010 single work autobiography
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