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There are 9 Free Audio History Books about Australia. 6 of the books are from Librivox and 3 are from Kindle. The books contain a total of 4,120 pages and take 68 hours and 40 minutes to read, which is 2 Days 20 Hours and 40 Minutes.
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The largest book is Australia Felix with 862 pages, and the the shortest is Brothers-In-Law by Beck with 37 pages.
The largest Book Chapter section is Australia Felix with 2.14 pages of text & takes 1 minute 57 seconds to read.
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1  1917 Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson 215,500W 862 14:21:47 394M  
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2  1888 History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888
by Favenc, Ernest
190,668W 763 12:43
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| 1 1500s Rumours of existence of Southern Continent |
| 2 JAVE & JAVE LA GRANDE |
| 3 Authentic Discoveries & visits of early Navigators |
| 4 Torres sails between New Guinea & Terra Australis |
| 5 1606 Voyage of DUYFHEN, Dirk Hartog on West Coast, his inscribed plate |
| 6 Restored by Vlaming |
| 7 Afterwards by Hamelin |
| 8 Nuyts on South Coast |
| 9 Wreck of BATAVIA on Houtman's Abrolhos |
| 10 Mutiny of Cornelis |
| 11 Tasman's 2nd voyage |
| 12 Dampier with Buccaneers |
| 13 2nd Voyage in ROEBUCK |
| 14 Last visit of Dutch |
| 15 Captain Cookal |
| 16 Flinders: his theory of Dividing Strait |
| 17 Plans for exploring Interior |
| 18 His captivity, Captain King |
| 19 Concluding remarks |
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2 Continent of Australia
| 1 Its peculiar formation |
| 2 coast range & highest peaks thereof |
| 3 coastal rivers |
| 4 inland rivers |
| 5 Difference of vegetation on tableland & coast |
| 6 Exception to rule |
| 7 Valuable timber of coast districts |
| 8 Animals common to whole continent |
| 9 Some birds same |
| 10 Distinct habits of others |
| 11 Australian native & his unknown origin |
| 12 Water supply |
| 13 Upheaval. |
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3  1893 Book of Bush
by George Dunderdale
184,000W 736 12:15:07 336M 
| 1 Purging out old leven |
| 2 1st Settlers |
| 3 Wreck of Convict ship "Neva" on Kings Island |
| 4 Discovery of river Hopkins |
| 5 Whaling |
| 6 1849 Out West |
| 7 1853 Among Diggers |
| 8 Bush Hermit |
| 9 2 Shepherds |
| 10 Valiant Police-Sergeant |
| 11 White Slavers |
| 12 Government Stroke |
| 13 One 90 Mile |
| 14 Gippsland Pioneers |
| 15 isle of Blasted Hopes |
| 16 Glengarry In Gippsland |
| 17 Wanted, Cattle Market |
| 18 2 Special Surveys |
| 19 How government Came to Gippsland |
| 20 Gippsland Under Law |
| 21 Until golden Dawn |
| 22 New Rush |
| 23 Gippsland After 30 years |
| 24 Government Officers in Bush |
| 25 Seal Islands & Sealers |
| 26 Happy convict. |
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4  Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History
by James Francis HOGAN 1855 - 1924
142,500W 570 9:29:38
| 1 Genesis of Gladstone Colony |
| 2 Constitution of New Colony |
| 3 Mr Gladstone Enunciates his Land Policy |
| 4 Founding of Colony |
| 5 Veto of Earl Grey |
| 6 Vindication of Colonel Barney |
| 7 Growth & Development of Gladstone |
| 8 Experiences of a Pioneer Squatter |
| 9 Great Gold Rush |
| 10 Marvellous Wild-Goose Chase |
| 11 Host of Disappointed Diggers |
| 12 Correspondence of Sir Maurice O'Connell |
| 13 Grevious Error of Mr Gladstone's |
| 14 Major De Winton - Oldest living Gladstonian |
| 15 Gladstone of To-Day |
| 16 Mr Gladstone's True Principles of Colonisation |
| 17 Mr Gladstone & Colonies |
| 18 A Couple of Colonial Lectures. |
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5  1894 History of Australia & New Zealand From 1606 to 1890
by Alexander, Sutherland, George
92,920W 372 6:12
| 1 Early Discoverers |
| 2 1788 - 1890 Convict Settlement at Sydney |
| 3 Discoveries of Bass & Flinders |
| 4 1800 - 8 New South Wales, |
| 5 1803 - 36 Tasmania |
| 6 1808 - 37 New South Wales |
| 7 1817 - 36 Discoveries in Interior |
| 8 1800 - 40 Port Phillip |
| 9 1836 - 41 South Australia |
| 10 1838 - 50 New South Wales |
| 11 1841 - 50 South Australia |
| 12 Discovery of Gold |
| 13 1851 - 5 Victoria |
| 14 1851 - 60 New South Wales |
| 15 1829 - 90 West Australia |
| 16 1823 - 90 Queensland |
| 17 1840 - 60 Explorations in Interior |
| 18 1860 - 86 Discoveries in Interior |
| 19 1837 - 90 Tasmania |
| 20 1850 - 90 South Australia |
| 21 1860 - 90 New South Wales |
| 22 1855 - 90 Victoria |
| 23 Times of Maoris |
| 24 New Zealand Colonised |
| 25 White Men & Maoris |
| 26 1843 - 90 New Zealand. |
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6  1862 Robert Ohara Burke & Australian Expedition of 1860
by Andrew Jackson
91,500W 366 6:05:26 167M
| 1 Mr Burkes Family |
| 2 Formation of exploring party |
| 3 exploration fund committe |
| 4 appointment of Mr Burke |
| 5 Departure of expedition |
| 6 journey to nibindi on river darling |
| 7 division of party |
| 8 permanent depot in interior |
| 9 Instructions to mr burk |
| 10 journey to Tarowato |
| 11 mr burkes 1st dispatch |
| 12 instructions to mr wright |
| 13 Journey t curcus creek |
| 14 choice for depot site |
| 15 burke leaves & returns |
| 16 loss of 3 camels |
| 17 dispatch to comitee at Melbourne |
| 18 Writen records of expedition |
| 19 surveyers report of country between tarowato & curkas creek |
| 20 Wrights inacitivy & disregard of Mr Burks Conduct |
| 21 Departure for Carpentaria |
| 22 Diary of Explorers |
| 23 Object of expedition accomplished |
| 24 burgas & wills prepare to return to curpas creek |
| 25 arrival at Curpas Creek |
| 26 Dissapointment & Depression of Party on finding depot deserted |
| 27 Exploreres determined to move towards mt Hopeless |
| 28 2 Camels Killed |
| 29 Kindness of Natives |
| 30 Burnk & King make last effort to find blacks |
| 31 his death |
| 32 burks last journey & Death |
| 33 Browns Journey towards Darling |
| 34 they visit Purose Creek |
| 35 Brah Arrives in Melbourne |
| 36 Relief parties dispatched |
| 37 kings wanderings amongst blacks |
| 38 rescue of king |
| 39 interment of remains of Burke & Wills |
| 40 Report of Royal commision, Dispatch of government of Victoria. |
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7  Australian Miscellany
By VARIOUS
68,000W 272 4:32:02
| 1 Introduction to an Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens |
| 2 Australasia William by Charles Wentworth |
| 3 Impressions of Sydney by Mrs Allan Macpherson |
| 4 When Your Pants Begin to Go tby Henry Lawson |
| 5 Walzing Matilda by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson |
| 6 Echo from Old Bark School tby Henry Lawson |
| 7 Piece of Poetry for Mother & Father to Read by Edward William Cole |
| 8 Introduction to Sir George Grey, Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands by George Cockburn Henderson |
| 9 Effects of Gold Discovery by Rev David Mackenzie |
| 10 Town Life in Australia by R E N Twopeny |
| 11 Muse of Australia by Henry C Kendall |
| 12 We called him 'Ally' for shor tby Henry Lawson |
| 13 Water Them Geraniums by Henry Lawson |
| 14 Henry Lawson by Henry Lawson |
| 15 Guide for Poits by A C J Dennis |
| 16 Rats by Henry Lawson |
| 17 We Call him 'Ally' for Short by Henry Lawson |
| 18 No Room for Dead by George Baker |
| 19 Wormwood & Nightshade by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 20 Wolf & Hound by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 21 Last Leap by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 22 From Lightning & Tempest by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 23 Johnson, Alias Crow by Henry Lawson |
| 24 Song of Autumn by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 25 Hunting Song by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 26 Exiles Farewell by Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| 27 Bush Cats by Henry Lawson |
| 28 Wail Of Waiter (A Tavern Catch) by Marcus Clarke |
| 29 Johnson's Antidote by Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson |
| 30 South Seaman by Louis Becke. |
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8  1888 Recollections on Melbourne & Victoria
by William Westgarth
35,500W 142 2:21:39 174M
| 1 Call back Yesterday |
| 2 Mr Prouds Oceana |
| 3 Indeginous Features around Melbourne |
| 4 Beach, now port Melbourne |
| 5 1842 Melbourne Coorporation |
| 6 Early Western Victoria |
| 7 Some Names of Mark in Early Years |
| 8 Some intergector of Edward Henty |
| 9 James Simpson 1st Magistrate of Settlement |
| 10 William Curr Founder of Argas & Town Clerk of Melbourne |
| 11 Edward Wilson Cheif Proprieter of Argus, Times, South |
| 12 Early Society, Ways, Means & Manners |
| 13 Cheap Living |
| 14 Black Thursday |
| 15 Early Victorian Legislation |
| 16 1888 Postscript, Melbourn |
| 17 Albury. |
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9  1901 Brothers-In-Law: A Tale Of Equatorial Islands: & Brass Gun Of Buccaneers
by Louis Becke
9,291W 37 37Min
| 1 BROTHERS-IN-LAW: A TALE OF EQUATORIAL ISLANDS |
| 2 BRASS GUN OF BUCCANEERS. |
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1 1917 Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson 215,500W 862 14:21:47 394M M
| 1 Proem Richard is more sociable than Mary has ever seen him during sea voyage home, & he does not appear to be as aloof & arrogant as he often was |
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| 1 Dr Richard Townshend-Mahony, F R C S , M D , Edinburgh, for 2 years proprietor of Diggers' Emporium in Ballarat township, near Melbourne, Australia |
| 2 1852 came to goldfields based on advertising that made gold seem easy to acquire |
| 3 accompanied by his best friend, Purdy Smith, an Englishman with whom he has little in common, but is more refined than typical diggers like old lawyer |
| 4 Mahony refuses to partake of alcohol on even a social level often causes others to dislike him |
| 5 Mahony's courtship of 15 year-old Polly Turnham, who works as a servant at Beamish Hotel, sleeping with 2 plump Beamish sisters Tilly & Jinn |
| 6 After working with her brother, Ned, & facing a battery of questions from her eldest brother John, 2 are able to get married |
| 7 John & his beautiful wife Emma unable to attend when latter falls ill Also arriving for wedding is Polly's older sister, Sarah |
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| 1 Spoiled flour in store Mahony was inattentive in keeping has got him sued & forced to close store |
| 2 Polly is displeased with dirt floor shack Richard calls home John has gone temporarily mad when his wife's illness leads to her death |
| 3 He was so devoted to her that he needs children removed from his home while he recovers from his grief |
| 4 Polly miscarries, & is more than happy to take in children, Emma (Trotty, later Emmy), Johnny, & Jerry, along with Sarah |
| 5 Sarah takes on a new name, Sara (spoken Sahra) Mahony resumes his practice & they move to a new house |
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| 1 Mahony begins a longstanding habit of shutting himself away reading religion & philosophy, starring with Lamarck & Maillet, coming from Protestantism |
| 2 wanting to release God from dead-letterism from which centuries had accumulated about Him to reveal a God of mercy |
| 3 Henry Ocock courts Agnes Glenidinning, whose father is in an asylum for trying to kill her |
| 4 Sara is so sick of her name being mispronounced that she changes it to Zara for a more French feel |
| 5 John recovers & takes toward politics with great success, & takes children back in |
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| 1 Ned takes to wife another Polly, so his sister begins using her real name, Mary, feeling she has outgrown name Polly |
| 2 Mahony has become rather successful as physician, but Henry Ocock has been even more successful, which bothers Richard |
| 3 Mahony does indeed become more & more successful, & Mary becomes deeply involved in preparations for a gala to raise money for statue of Burke |
| 4 John sends his children to boarding school more successful Mahony gets, more he longs to return to England |
| 5 Tempted by gold falsely promised, he had been wanting to extricate himself forever from Australia |
| 6 He sells house to pay for journey, desiring to set up a country practice in a country where apples grow red on all sides. |
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