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Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories
- Narrated by: Jim Haynes
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories
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Publisher's Summary
The ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten and the surprising. Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland, and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost?
From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising, the truly weird and the completely inexplicable. Told with refreshing understatement, Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories vividly evokes a vanishing Australia when anything was possible, when characters were larger than life and the bizarre and strange were normal.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-26-19
enthralling stories that leave you wanting to know
absolutely loved it some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking and others genuinely funny an amazing mix of different stories.
5 people found this helpful
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- Chelsea
- 07-11-18
Historical accounts of Australian people
The voice is well metered and the stories important and interesting. Very modern only I would have enjoyed some more diverse stories of disability or woman and indigenous historical figures. There are some woman but not as equally portraits. Fair and true depiction s of many.
5 people found this helpful
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- RG
- 02-27-20
Anti-transgender bias
The book blatantly misgenders a transgender man, Eugene Falleni, calling him by his birth name and repeatedly using the pronoun "her," despite acknowledging he lived his life as a man and was treated as a man by those around him. Misgendering trans people isn't acceptable and tarnishes the entire book.
3 people found this helpful
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- Melanie
- 10-25-20
will put you to sleep wish I could get money back
Mono tone not what I was hoping for or expecting buy something else very boring reader
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- Anonymous User
- 02-12-20
Enjoyable
Found some of the stories really interesting and will prob give it another listen. Mostly very engaging , well written and narrated Australian history.
1 person found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 10-03-22
A good variety of stories that held my interest
thoroughly enjoyable & learnt more of our history, while travelling across Australia. Will definitely recommend.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-03-22
Just Brilliant Stories
It is an excellent book, that introduces you to many wonderful stories; Australians should be proud of Beautifully written and brilliantly narrated by Jim Haynes. Extremely entertaining and beautiful to listen to. I would recommend it to any reader who wants to know a bit more than what he knows about this great county.
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- Paul Rowan
- 10-28-20
A must read for all Australians
This collection of fantastic Australian stories is sure to entertain and delight listeners the world over. Written with wry wit and attention to detail, Haynes brings history to theatrical life.
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- toomuchshopping
- 05-24-20
More yawn than yarn
Sorry to say, this goes on and on with too much monotonous detail, poorly planned story telling, and not terribly interesting stories anyway.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-24-20
Looking for excitement
Pretty mundane. A little history but dragged out. Sorry I took 2 months to get 4 hours left. I just didn’t want to play the audio nook
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