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    • A Captivating Guide to Australian History, Starting from the Aborigines Through the Dutch East India Company, James Cook, and World War II to the Present (Australasia)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Long before Australia started to be considered one of the best places in the world to live, it was thought to be completely unlivable. In the 15th century, the European race to claim land began....

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    • The Puzzle of Polynesia
    • By: Christina Thompson
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,041 ratings
    • A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know....

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    • The Terrible True Story of Louisa Collins
    • By: Caroline Overington
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a mother of 10 children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands had died suddenly and the Crown, convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic, put her on trial....

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    • The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People
    • By: King David Kalākaua
    • Narrated by: Kekoa Lake
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Spanning several centuries of history in the Pacific, The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People is a collection of Hawaiian stories that were preserved through the ages by oral tradition and documented for posterity by King David Kalākaua in 1887....

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    • Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure
    • By: Julia Flynn Siler
    • Narrated by: Joyce Bean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • First colonized around 200 A.D. by intrepid Polynesian islanders, Hawaii existed for hundreds of years in splendid isolation. Foreigners did not visit the islands until 1788....

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    • An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
    • By: Gregory Forth
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano....

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    • A History of the Human Mind
    • By: Paul Ham
    • Narrated by: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
    • Length: 38 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • Veteran war historian Paul Ham embarks on a journey that has never been attempted: to restore the idea of the soul to the human story and to show how belief in, and beliefs arising from, the soul/mind have driven human history....

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    • The Secrets of Stonehenge, Easter Island and Other Ancient Monuments
    • By: Dr. Lynne Kelly
    • Narrated by: Louise Siverson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • The discovery of a powerful memory technique used by our Neolithic ancestors in their monumental memory places - and how we can use their secrets to train our own minds....

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    • By: Doris (Nugi Garimara) Pilkington
    • Narrated by: Rachael Maza
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 578 ratings
    • The film Rabbit-Proof Fence is based on this true account of Doris Pilkington's mother Molly, who as a young girl led her two sisters on an extraordinary 1,600 kilometer walk home.

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    • Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Mike Reaves
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, stories of heroism and perfidy, stories about animals and birds, and stories about love and hate all have parts to play in the wide array of myths, legends, and tales created by Indigenous Australians....

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    • Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
    • By: Terry Hunt, Carl Lipo
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 442 ratings
    • The monumental statues of Easter Island have been the source of great mystery ever since the island was first discovered in 1722....

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    • What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand
    • By: Laura Tingle
    • Narrated by: Aimee Horne
    • Series: Quarterly Essays
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Australia and New Zealand are often considered close cousins. But why, despite being so close, do we know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at leadership, economics, history and more....

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    • A True Story of Deviance, Torture and Social Cleansing
    • By: Ryan Green
    • Narrated by: Steve White
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • On 20 May 1999, the South Australian Police were called to investigate a disused bank in the unassuming town of Snowtown, in connection to the disappearance of multiple missing people. The police were not prepared for the chilling scene that awaited them....

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    • The Settlement of the Pacific (The Landmark Library)
    • By: Nicholas Thomas
    • Narrated by: Mark Robertson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In Voyagers, the distinguished anthropologist Nick Thomas charts the course of the seaborne migrations that populated the islands between the Americas and the western coast of Asia from late prehistory onwards....

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    • Eine Wahre Geschichte Von Devianz, Folter Und Sozialer Säuberung [A True Story of Deviance, Torture and Social Cleansing]
    • By: Ryan Green
    • Narrated by: Jakob Seel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-23
    • Language: German
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    • Am 20. Mai 1999 wurde die südaustralische Polizei gerufen, um eine stillgelegte Bank in der bescheidenen Stadt Snowtown im Zusammenhang mit dem Verschwinden mehrerer vermisster Personen zu untersuchen.....

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    • Uncovering Ancient Australia
    • By: Billy Griffiths
    • Narrated by: Tom Griffiths
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Soon after Billy Griffiths joins his first archaeological dig as camp manager and cook, he is hooked. Equipped with a historian’s inquiring mind, he embarks on a journey through time, seeking to understand the extraordinary deep history of the Australian continent....

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    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Kaan Akyol
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • Many of us don’t know much about mythological stories from these regions, and it is my pleasure and privilege to educate you on the intricate details that lie within them....

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