Australian Miscellany: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Australian Miscellany, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Australian Miscellany by Various Authors A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readings should have some sort of Australian hook. So they can be by an Australian author, or about Australia, or just have a prominent bit of Australianess in the plot. Failing that: even being performed by Australians will do! And that the works should be PD in Australia and the U.S.A. Introduction by Annise

Recording facts

• Recording title: Australian Miscellany
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Combined MP3 track duration: 4:32:18

Catalogue topics

• Australia
• poetry
• pioneers

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. Introduction to an Anthology of Australian Verse — 18:01
2. Australiasia — 2:50
3. "Impressions of Sydney," from My Experiences in Australia, Being Recollections of a Visit to the Australian Colonies in 1856-7 — 25:29
4. When Your Pants Begin to Go — 3:36
5. Waltzing Matilda — 2:13
6. An Echo From Old Bark School — 3:10
7. A Piece of Poetry for Mother and Father to Read — 2:19
8. Chapter 1, Introduction to Sir George Grey, Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands — 29:57
9. Effects of the Gold Discovery — 7:00
10. Excerpt from Town Life in Australia — 13:24
11. The Muse of Australia — 1:08
12. We called him 'Ally' for short — 7:34
13. Water Them Geraniums - Part 1 — 23:57
14. Water Them Geraniums - Part 2 — 45:29
15. A Guide for Poits — 5:22
16. Rats — 6:26
17. We called him Ally for short — 7:47
18. No Room For The Dead — 0:55
19. Wormwood and Nightshade — 5:56
20. Wolf And Hound — 4:36
21. The Last Leap — 2:19
22. From lightning To Tempest — 1:49
23. Johnson, Alias Crow — 2:03
24. A Song of Autumn — 1:08

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