| ISBN |
9781489368829 |
| Name |
Veitch, Michael author, narrator. |
| Title |
The forgotten islands : one man's journey into a truly gothic Australia / Michael Veitch ; read by the author. |
| Edition |
MP3 edition ; Unabridged. |
| Published |
Tullamarine, Victoria Bolinda Audio, [2016] |
| ℗2016 |
| Description |
1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (7 hr., 24 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Other physical details |
12 cm. |
| Sound Characteristics |
digital optical |
| Digital File Characteristics |
audio file MP3 310 MB |
| Performers |
Read by the author. |
| Summary |
'The more I learned, the more I realised this was an Australia I hardly knew. This was stormy weather Australia, an Australia of shipwrecks and sealers; of brutality and extermination; of folly and heroism; of wild weather and explorers in flimsy boats; of thousand-foot cliffs and amazing birds and strange vegetation; of places well-trodden and others believed never to have felt the impact of a human foot. This was a truly gothic Australia, as real and as valid as the gold and the drovers and the deserts, yet known to almost no one.' Michael Veitch has long been fascinated by the islands of Bass Strait, between mainland Australia and Tasmania, a multitude of cold, dark isles, regularly pounded by atrocious weather and hardly visited, but rich in atypical Australian history. This is the story of his personal odyssey among them (plagued at times by appalling seasickness, airsickness and stinging nettles). |
| System details |
Requires the use of an MP3 enabled CD player or computer. |
| Subjects |
Veitch, Michael -- Travel |
| Islands -- Bass Strait (Vic. and Tas.) |
| Bass Strait (Vic. and Tas.) -- Description and travel |
| Genre |
Audiobooks |
| Added Corporate Names |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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