An Outlaw's Journal: Joe Byrne and the Cow from El Dorado

by Georgina Stones, Aidan Phelan (Illustrator)

Overview

The year is 1876, and Joe Byrne is wrestling with the loyalty he has to his best friend, Aaron Sherritt, and his loyalty to his family. When Aaron comes to him with a proposition to benefit both parties, Joe makes a decision that will lead him to the darkest place he can imagine: Beechworth Gaol. Georgina Stones explores this rarely examined part of the history of Joe Byrne through dramatised narrative and her extensive historical research. With original illustrations as well as archival material including news reports and photographs, Stones brings her readers into a bygone era where loyalty was everything and life rarely went to plan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645378429
Publisher:	Australian Bushranging
Publication date:	01/04/2023
Pages:	148
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Georgina Stones was born and raised in Tasmania, but has recently made the move across Bass Strait to reside in Victoria. She has a love of history, with the lives of Australian outlaws Joe Byrne and Michael Howe her main interests in that field.She attended school in Ulverstone and has since studied journalism through Deakin University. Her natural inquisitiveness and perseverance have paid off in her work on An Outlaw's Journal, uncovering many previously forgotten or overlooked aspects of the life of Joe Byrne, particularly in regards to his early life and connections to the Chinese community. She also researches and writes for her website Michael Howe: Governor of the Woods for which she has been interviewed on ABC Radio and featured in Traces magazine.

Aidan Phelan is the writer and historian for A Guide to Australian Bushranging, which has been bringing Australia's outlaw heritage to a worldwide audience since 2017. In 2021 he was featured in a series of interviews on ABC Radio Hobart and Northern Tasmania discussing the history of bushrangers in Tasmania, and was interviewed for The Hobart Magazine about bushranger "Rocky" Whelan.He has also worked as an illustrator, contributing work for Judy Lawson's The Clarke Bushrangers: A Clash of Cultures in 2020, and regularly provides illustrations for An Outlaw's Journal by Georgina Stones.In 2020 he self-published his first novel, Glenrowan, which dramatised the final months of the Kelly Outbreak. He is also developing Glenrowan as a television miniseries with filmmaker Matthew Holmes. In 2022 he authored and released three self-published titles: Glenrowan: Definitive Edition, Aaron Sherritt: Persona non Grata, and Bushranging Tales Volume One.