Ned Kelly. The Story Of Australia's Most Notorious Legend

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: William Heinemann Australia
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2013
Edition: First Edition

Description: 826 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers ploughs.Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boys brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination Was he even a political revolutionary, an Australian republican channelling the spirit of EurekaPeter FitzSimons, bestselling chronicler of many of the great defining moments and people of this nations history, is the perfect person to tell this most iconic of all Australian stories. From Kellys early days in Beveridge, Victoria, in the mid-1800s, to the Felons Apprehension Act, which made it possible for anyone to shoot the Kelly gang, to Neds appearance in his now-famous armour, prompting the shocked and bewildered police to exclaim ‘He is the devil! and ‘He is the bunyip!, FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.

ISBN: 9781742758909