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Hanging Ned Kelly, Michael Adams

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Hanging Ned Kelly, Michael Adams
Language
eng
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"The sources accompanying this book can be found online at affirmpress.com.au/publishing/hanging-ned-kelly"--page 371
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non fiction
Main title
Hanging Ned Kelly
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Michael Adams
Summary
When it came time to hang Ned Kelly, the job fell to crapcarrierturnedquackdoctorturneddrunkenchickenthief Elijah Upjohn. Such is life indeed. Hanging Ned Kelly looks at the life and times, crimes and demise of Australia's most famous antihero from a new perspective: that of the 'rogue and vagabond' who finally put the noose around his neck. Here, Elijah Upjohn's tale becomes the rusty scalpel that slices open the underbelly of colonial Victoria. Written by Michael Adams, creator of the acclaimed podcast Forgotten Australia, this is an odyssey into an infernal underworld seething with serial killers, clueless cops, larrikin vigilantes, renegade reporters, racist settlers, furious fallen women and cunning waxworks showmen. Looming over them all: the deranged hangmen paid to execute convicted men and women some of them innocent or unfairly condemned in Melbourne before it was marvellous
Target audience
adult
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Hanging Ned Kelly, Elijah Upjohn, the hangmen and the underbelly of colonial Australia
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