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The Founding of the Colony

In The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History

Read by Timothy Ferguson

James Francis Hogan

This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summ…

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

In A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines

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Clayton Edwards

It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested…

Rafts and Boats

In The Art of Travel

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Sir Francis Galton

The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from…

Town Life in Australia

In Australian Miscellany

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R.E.N. Twopeny (1857-1915) and R. E. N. Twopeny

A collection in celebration of 2012 Year of Reading Australia. Readers chose fiction, non fiction and poetry - we only asked that the readin…

Introduction, Beenleigh, Tweed Heads, Cleveland

In Tours in the South Coast District

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Queensland Railways

An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly…

The Jerilderie Letter

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

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Edward (Ned) Kelly and Ned Kelly

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

Introduction

In Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One

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Sir W M Flinders Petrie and William Matthew Flinders Petrie

Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)

The Power of the Dead to Return to Earth

In Greek and Roman Ghost Stories

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Lacy Collison-Morely and Lacy Collison-Morley

A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy …

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