Australian Tragic. Gripping Tales From The Dark Side Of Our History

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hatchette Austraia
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 369 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Heartbreaking And Shocking, Gothic And Weird, These Fascinating Stories Are All True, And Told To Remind Us Of The Australia We Don't Know, The One That Simmers With Love And Hate, Of Hopes Raised And Futures Dashed, Unheralded And Un Noticed...until Now.

Publishers Description: AUSTRALIAN TRAGIC is about a nation that began its life as a stage for misfortune - and ever since has struggled to outgrow its birthright. These are gripping tales that take us into the heart of this country: tales of genuine catastrophe, of grand chances gone astray, of fools and their plans pathetically undone, of heartbreaking sadness and violent loss, and of both goodness and human evil. From Aboriginals being curious in an American circus to the story of Martin Bryant at Port Arthur, and from Bob Bungey, who survived The Battle of Britain, but couldn't face life when his young wife suddenly died soon after he came home, to the doctor who died minutes before he was to deliver a paper revealing the secret of using monkey glands to improve human health and stamina, and sexual virility - all these stories are told in a gripping narrative style, driven by eyewitness testimony, a solid sense of place, and a mood of impending doom. And we thought we knew our history...

ISBN: 9780733623417