Australian History

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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 3 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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    • By: Geoffrey Blainey
    • Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 207 ratings
    • Geoffrey Blainey is well-placed to introduce us to the people who have played a part and to guide us through the events which have created the Australian identity....

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    • The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 21 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • The name Captain James Cook is one of the most recognisable in Australian history - an almost mythic figure who is often discussed, celebrated, reviled and debated....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Michael Carman
    • Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 926 ratings
    • The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.

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    • The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 1
    • By: David Hunt
    • Narrated by: David Hunt
    • Series: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Book 1, Girt, Book 1
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia.... In this hilarious history, David Hunt reveals the truth of Australia's past....

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    • The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2
    • By: David Hunt
    • Narrated by: David Hunt
    • Series: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Book 2, Girt, Book 2
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, and sheep. Lots of sheep....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6,365 ratings
    • Every time Bill Bryson walks out the door memorable travel literature threatens to break out. His previous excursion up, down, and over the Appalachian Trail...

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    • The Improbable Birth of Australia
    • By: Thomas Keneally
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony....

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    • By: Peter FitzSimons
    • Narrated by: Cameron Goodall
    • Length: 23 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero? Most Australians have heard of the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero....

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    • By: Michael Veitch
    • Narrated by: Michael Veitch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This is the story of these unsung heroes who risked their lives—and sometimes lost them—in the service of their country....

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    • The Birth of Eurasia
    • By: Barry Cunliffe
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 18 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today....

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    • The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3
    • By: David Hunt
    • Narrated by: David Hunt
    • Series: The Unauthorised History of Australia, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • David Hunt tramples the tall poppies of the past in charting Australia’s transformation from aspiration to nation - an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards and bushier beards, of workers and women who weren’t going to take it anymore....

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    • By: Alex McDermott
    • Narrated by: Tim Garner
    • Length: 21 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Australian History For Dummies is your rough-and-ready tour guide through Australia's whirlwind past. This new edition fills in the last ten years of history and covers issues faced in the twenty-first century....

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    • The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
    • By: Mike Dash
    • Narrated by: Guy Bethell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java....

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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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    • World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
    • By: Alan Rems
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • South Pacific Cauldron is the first complete history embracing all land, sea, and air operations in the Pacific War....

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
    • By: Noenoe K. Silva
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In 1897, as a White oligarchy made plans to allow the United States to annex Hawai'i, native Hawaiians organized a massive petition drive to protest. Ninety-five percent of the native population signed the petition, causing the annexation treaty to fail in the US Senate....

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