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Monday, August 8, 2011

New Book Alert: Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-Made Heroes

There is a new book out this month (that has Ned's helmet on the cover) called Bushrangers: Australia's Greatest Self-Made Heroes by Evan McHugh.

Here is part of the blurb for it from the publisher's website:

From the first convict runaways to the spectacular showdown that ended Ned Kelly's career, Evan McHugh delivers true tales of daring exploits and a cast of roguish characters who blazed their place into Australian history.

These are incredible stories of the men - and women - who achieved fame not just by what they did, but by the way they did it, many of them lifting themselves from downtrodden underdogs to self-made heroes.....

Bushrangers is as fast paced as a stolen thoroughbred and as arresting as a squad of troopers. 


To read more of the blurb and to find out about the author and to read an excerpt (which is not Kelly related) go to:
http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670075416/bushrangers

There was also a recent google alert with a 13 minute audio interview with the author (who does touch on the Kelly aspect in it) located at
http://blogs.abc.net.au/nsw/2011/08/bushrangers-they-were-villains-but-why-do-so-many-people-regard-them-as-heroes.html

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