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JUST OUT FOR XMAS – GREAT AUSTRALIAN PLACES

November 22, 2022 By Graham Seal in Uncategorized Tags: Graham Seal, Great Australian Places Leave a comment

Funny, curious and downright astonishing stories from across a big country

Wherever you go in Australia, you’ll stumble across traces of ancient settlement, remnants of exploration, yarns from the roaring days of gold and bushranging, unexplained events and a never-ending cast of eccentric characters. Read all about it here

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Chunks

  • STORY MAKES US HUMAN*
  • THIMBLERIGGING – HOW TO PLAY THE SHELL GAME
  • Mything in Action – The Thylacine Files
  • LIFE ON THE HULKS
  • JUST OUT FOR XMAS – GREAT AUSTRALIAN PLACES
  • FINDING KING SOLOMON’S MINES
  • THE SLAVES OF LUNDY
  • TIN KETTLING – A LOST CUSTOM
  • THE REAL RED RIDING HOOD
  • THE SONS OF FREEDOM MEET THE SAMURAI
  • ALEXANDER AT THE GATES OF PARADISE
  • THE SHROUD – A RUSSIAN REVENANT
  • OUTCOME OF RESEARCH Part 4
  • TEN LINKS IN A CHARTIST CHAIN – A String of ‘Democracy Sausages’. Part 3
  • WHO WERE THE CHARTISTS? Part 2
  • CHARTISM DOWNUNDER – A MISSED HISTORY Part 1
  • AN UPDATE ON MYRA SYKES
  • THE REDEMPTION OF MYRA SYKES
  • GREAT AUSTRALIAN MYSTERIES – OUT NOW
  • CONDEMNED REVIEWS
  • HOLY GRAILS!
  • A LETTER FROM YOUR ROBBER – JAMES MACLAINE TO HORACE WALPOLE, 1749
  • CONDEMNED is now released
  • JACK – A TRUE TALE
  • BANDIT LANDS 11 – The Little Angel
  • KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS
  • CONDEMNED: THE TRANSPORTED MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WHO BUILT BRITAIN’S EMPIRE
  • BANDIT LANDS 10 – The Hassanpoulia of Cyprus
  • MORE ON THE PORTUGUESE PLATYPUS
  • THE APPEARANCE OF TRUTH – Why People Believe Lies
  • BLOOD CURDLING OATHS AND DIABOLIC RITUALS – FOLK SECRET SOCIETIES
  • The Big Book of Great Australian Bush Yarns
  • THE BLACK BOOK – Dealing With Demons
  • BANDIT LANDS 9 – The Scarlet Rose
  • THE COMING OF MEN – AN INUIT CREATION STORY
  • BANDIT LANDS 8 – Vassilis Palaiokostas, ‘The Phantom’
  • BANDIT LANDS 7 – INDIA’S BANDIT QUEEN
  • The Grace Darling of New Zealand
  • BANDIT LANDS 6: JURO JANOSIK
  • THE EROS CODE
  • BANDIT LANDS 5 – ‘PIGEON’
  • BANDIT LANDS 4 -‘THE LAMP’
  • LOST TREASURE IN THE CAVE OF DEATH – Part 2
  • LOST TREASURE IN THE CAVE OF DEATH – Part 1
  • BANDIT LANDS 3 – CAPTAIN SILVINO –
  • REBECCA AND HER DAUGHTERS
  • UNPLEASANT LETTERS FROM NED LUDD AND CAPTAIN SWING
  • BANDIT LANDS 2 – WITH HIS PISTOL IN HIS HAND: GREGORIO CORTEZ
  • THYLACINE FLICKS, NEWLY UNEARTHED
  • BANDIT LANDS 1 – CORTINAS
  • MYTH-MAKING IN THE TIME OF THE VIRUS
  • CACKLING FARTS, TALLYWAGS AND OTHER GROSE WORDS
  • A TIME FOR HEROES Anzac Day 2020
  • IN PRAISE OF SMALL THINGS
  • THE WORLD FAIR IN THE DESERT
  • THE RETURN OF TYPHOID MARY
  • FACT AND FAKE – THE FIRST ANZAC DAY
  • HOW DID LINNAEUS KNOW THAT?
  • KITTY GRAVY WORKS THE SYSTEM, 1825
  • NUMSKULLS, NINCOMPOOPS AND THE AGE OF FOOLS
  • TRACKING MATILDA – A CONTINUING CONUNDRUM
  • HELLHOUNDS – FROM CONAN DOYLE TO ROBERT JOHNSON
  • THE MYSTERY OF MICHAEL ROCKEFELLER’S DISAPPEARANCE ON THE CANNIBAL COAST
  • AUSTRALIA’S FUNNIEST YARNS – OUT NOW!
  • THE GREATEST MONSTER WHO EVER CURSED THE EARTH
  • THYLACINE UPDATES
  • THE PORTUGUESE PLATYPUS
  • FOGLE-HUNTERS, WIRE-TOOLERS AND BUZZERS
  • HOW NOT TO FIND TREASURE
  • WAYS AND LAYS – THE SPEECH OF BEGGARS
  • THE DEVIL RODE OUT – THE SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE (SRA) SCARE
  • FLIGHT OF THE LOST DIAMONDS
  • A BUSHRANGER IN AMERICA
  • HOW MEN TOOK OVER
  • Moral Ecologies and Crimes Against Nature – just out
  • A MAGICAL WAR
  • THE SECRET SPEECH FROM THE DEVIL’S ARSE
  • THE BATTLE OF BOW STREET
  • Friedl Dicker’s art
  • LEGENDS OF THE SPECTRAL HORDE
  • ANZAC: THE BIRTH OF A NATION
  • RIVERS OF GOLD
  • BRITAIN REVOKES USA INDEPENDENCE
  • PARLARI – THE SPEECH OF FAIRGROUND FOLK
  • THE LOST RED RUBY OF BURMA
  • WIVES FOR SALE
  • BURYING THE DEAD HORSE
  • A RHYMING SLANG LETTER FROM THE IRON WRENCHES OF WORLD WAR ONE
  • Follow-up to ‘Stealing the Past’
  • HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A THYLACINE?
  • BOILING DOWN THE BODIES AND OTHER TRENCH MYTHS OF THE GREAT WAR
  • RAGTIME ARMIES: TRENCH SONGS OF THE GREAT WAR
  • FBI TURN TREASURE HUNTERS
  • MASSACRE AT CHILCOT ISLAND
  • STEALING THE PAST
  • PRIMAL EVIL
  • THE ROBIN HOOD FACTOR
  • THE VITUPERATIVE TONGUE – Insults Through the Centuries
  • GREAT CONVICT STORIES
  • LINES OF LIGHT – How Jewish children’s art survived the darkness of the Prague ghetto and Nazi death camps.

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