Crackpots, Ratbags And Rebels. A Swag Of Aussie Eccentrics

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 240 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. This Is A Collection Of Rollicking Yarns And Humorous Stories About Some Of Australia's Most Eccentric Characters.

Publishers Description: Eccentrics dont come with a warning! Crackpots, Rebels and Ratbags tells the extraordinary stories of some of Australias most amazing personalities, from Sir Henry Browne Hayes whose idea of courtship was to kidnap the girl, to Eliza Donnithorne, reputed to be Dickens inspiration for Miss Havisham; from Alfred Deakin, our spiritualist prime minister, to the outlandish Percy Grainger; from nude activist William Chidley to William the Flying Pieman King; and from outcast Bea Miles to the witch of Kings Cross, Rosaleen Norton. Robert Holden takes an affectionate, entertaining and lively look at the oddbods of Australias history.

ISBN: 9780733315411