Grave Tales. Stories Not Laid To Rest. Brisbane Volume 1

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Atlas Productions
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 288 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In cemeteries throughout Australia, gravestones hint at our history - tales of early settlement, unsolved murders, love lost, mystery, tragedy, health epidemics, scandal and sacrifice. Grave Tales reveals more than the headstone can ever convey by tracing the tumultuous journeys that lead to these final resting places. Grave Tales Brisbane Vol. 1 visits five Brisbane cemeteries and features people who willingly or unwilling, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest in a Brisbane cemetery. Meet the train driver who died on the Samford Range with 14 of his passengers; the working girl who caught the Pearl ferry and perished in the river; the Jack the Ripper suspect who had 20 wives, mostly all at once; the only woman ever hanged in Queensland; a boxer who should have been world champ but was a victim of the race card; a soldier who wanted to die with Harry Breaker Morant; and more.

ISBN: 9780995377684