The exploits of the Ned Kelly gang have entered legend. Seen now as a sort of Australian Robin Hood, and immortalised on screen by none other than Mick Jagger, and in paint by the great Australian artist Sidney Nolan, the reality - as related in this contemporary book written soon after the events it describes - was less romantic and more sordid than the myth. Kelly and his band were Irish 'larrikins' who preferred a career of brutal crime to honest toil. They operated as mounted bushrangers across the state of Victoria and brought terror to the outback with a string of armed robberies and murders in 1880 resembling the raids of the Jesse James gang or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the US.
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The Last of the Bushrangers - An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang
The exploits of the Ned Kelly gang have entered legend. Seen now as a sort of Australian Robin Hood, and immortalised on screen by none other than Mick Jagger, and in paint by the great Australian artist Sidney Nolan, the reality - as related in this contemporary book written soon after the events it describes - was less romantic and more sordid than the myth. Kelly and his band were Irish 'larrikins' who preferred a career of brutal crime to honest toil. They operated as mounted bushrangers across the state of Victoria and brought terror to the outback with a string of armed robberies and murders in 1880 resembling the raids of the Jesse James gang or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in the US.
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The Last of the Bushrangers - An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang
The Last of the Bushrangers - An Account of the Capture of the Kelly Gang
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BN ID: | 2940162726340 |
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Publisher: | Walrus Books Publisher |
Publication date: | 07/10/2020 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 827 KB |
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