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Australia's Best Unknown Stories

By: Jim Haynes
Narrated by: Jim Haynes
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From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific Australiana authors, comes a collection of classic Australian stories, yarns and furphies ... all of them unknown.

Things are not always as they seem, or as we've been told. Was the Ghan really named after the Afghan traders, and do we really know what the Ashes are?

From the remote outback and cattle stations to coastal towns, Jim introduces us to the liars and larrikins, the bushies and the stockmen to tell the funniest, the most amazing and the eccentric stories that capture the heart of the Australian spirit.

©2014 Jim Haynes (P)2014 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Short Stories Fiction
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what started as a much anticipated trivia book of unknown Australian stories quickly became a poetry book. the ending was sudden, didn't make any sense.

trivia to poetry

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Is there anything you would change about this book?

Yes. I was thoroughly enjoying this book until the onset of the Poetry. Also, I feel the book could have focused on some more modern events and stories, too. A mix of eras would have been better and less poetry. However, that is just my preference and poetry lovers/likers may well thoroughly enjoy themselves. I was really getting into the stories up till then. The narration was good though ;)

Enjoyable but....

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Fantastic book! Only issue is a lot of poems and nonsense stories at the end. A lot of fascinating people and events I never knew.

Great!

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