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Carpenter's World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the South Seas

Name: Carpenter's World Travels: Australia, New Zealand and Some Other Islands of the South Seas
Author: Frank G. Carpenter

Frank G. Carpenter

Read by BettyB · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Just a Word Before We Start (3:35)
The Giant of the South Seas (12:42)
Queensland (15:59)
A Crown of Gold and a Cross of Cactus (8:22)
The Metropolis of the Antipodes (11:24)
Walks about Sydney (10:14)
The Land of the Golden Fleece (8:36)
In the Great Wool Market (8:27)
Life on the Sheep Stations (14:57)
Rabbits and Dingoes (10:16)
Water for Thirsty Lands (17:50)
Melbourne (13:47)
In the Marts of the City (8:57)
The State-Owned Railways (17:28)
Gold Diggings in Creek and Desert (16:23)
A White Workers' Continent (16:40)
The Three ''R's'' in Australia (12:00)
The Aborigines (15:23)
Kangaroos and Dancing Birds (13:26)
Australia as Our Customer (12:27)
Tasmania (13:24)
The Pearl Fisheries of Thursday Island (11:49)
Australia's Island Wards (10:32)
Across the Tasman Sea to Wellington (7:54)
The Dominion of New Zealand (14:03)
''Social Pests'' (14:20)
The Women of the Dominion (13:55)
A Country without a Poorhouse (15:04)
Where the Working Man Rules (19:15)
On the Government Railways (11:52)
The Yellowstone of New Zealand (11:58)
The Maoris (16:14)
Mutton and Butter for London Tables (16:33)
Some Freaks of Nature (16:00)
American Goods in New Zealand (13:16)
The Fijis and the Tongas (18:36)
The Samoas (16:49)