Bibliograph

Adventurers, pioneers and misfits, Australia's most amazing true life stories, Jim Haynes

Type

Label

Adventurers, pioneers and misfits, Australia's most amazing true life stories, Jim Haynes

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-264)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraitsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Adventurers, pioneers and misfits

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jim Haynes

Sub title

Australia's most amazing true life stories

Summary

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 and out of the ordinary lives. And in only the way Jim can, he's 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 murder? These are the stories of lives that capture the heart and soul of the Australian character

Target audience

adult

Creator