Great Australian Rascals, Rogues And Ratbags. Australia's Most Colourful Criminal Characters

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 290 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australias master storyteller.The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad…Criminality, some say, is part of Australias national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles fifteen larger-than-life Aussie rogues - some of our greatest neer-do-wells from colonial times to the modern era. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the most despicable examples of humanity, to those whose courage has to be admired and whose so-called crimes were unjustly punished.This fascinating collection features felons who have sprung from Australias underbelly since 1788, such as the infamous Kate Leigh of the razor gangs; the convict Mary Bryant, who in 1791 escaped from the Sydney penal settlement and somehow made it back to England; James Hardy Vaux, who was sent to Australia no less than three times; Henry James OFarrell, the madman who attempted to murder Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868; and John Leak, who was repeatedly charged with insolence, disobedience and being absent without leave in World War I - and awarded the Victoria Cross.Told with Jims inimitable combination of history and humour, Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags is packed with murders, mystery and miscreants: true stories of true criminals from Australias past.

ISBN: 9781761067907