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Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories

By: Jim Haynes
Narrated by: Jim Haynes
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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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absolutely loved it some of the stories were absolutely heartbreaking and others genuinely funny an amazing mix of different stories.

enthralling stories that leave you wanting to know

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A very interesting book to listen to while driving or travelling. Enjoyed the narrators voice.

Enjoyed the book

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Found some of the stories really interesting and will prob give it another listen. Mostly very engaging , well written and narrated Australian history.

Enjoyable

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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.

Historical accounts of Australian people

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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
Craig Berry

Looking for excitement

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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.

A must read for all Australians

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Great production, really well researched stories that will leave you thinking....unbelievable!
highly recommended from a bloke who listens to stories via bluetooth headphones at work and in the car.

unbelievable!

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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.

Just Brilliant Stories

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thoroughly enjoyable & learnt more of our history, while travelling across Australia. Will definitely recommend.

A good variety of stories that held my interest

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loved all of it, funny, entertaining well worth the listen. Australia has a lot of tails to tell

things never taught at school that we should knoe

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