Cindy: I don't know if this is what you're thinking of but there's a series of 12 books by William Stuart Long (aka Vivian Stuart, V. A. Stuart) called "The Australians." I haven't read them but the books begin in about the 18th Century and ends in the 20th Century. Jean McDonald On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Cindy Rosenthal <grandcyn77@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Does anyone remember the series or author of the series of historical > fiction about the country of Australia--not books set in Australia, like A > Town Called Alice,,but about the settling and various periods in the > history of the country? Someone had requested the books for the collection; > I can't scan and don't know if any of the series was scanned; I'd like to > get the books from the library to read--though if they aren't in the > collection and someone wants to scan them I'd love to proof them. I tried > searching the collection but not remembering any titles or the author, I > only came up with A Town called Alice when I put Australia n the search > box. And when I tried Amazon I only found straight history; the > synopses of the bocks made them sound very interesting. ( >