Adventurers, Pioneers And Misfits. Australia's Most Amazing True Life Stories

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2020
Edition: First Edition

Description: 264 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the many years Jim has spent talking and writing about the quirkier events and people in our history, he has come across characters whose lives have amazed, surprised and amused him. This is a book about some of those people and their bizarre, remarkable, unusual and out of the ordinary lives.And in only the way Jim can, hes discovered that there is always more to the story than first meets the eye. Who knew, example, that the first man hanged in Australia made an artefact now valued at over one million dollars Or that an Australian swimmer was the highest paid act on the American vaudeville circuit and the star of the first movie ever made with a budget of one million American dollars And that the father of the first Australian woman to serve in parliament was hanged for murderThese are the stories that capture the heart and soul of the Australian spirit.

ISBN: 9781760877620