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Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political revolutionary, channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs. Historians still disagree over virtually every aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law. Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home? Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political revolutionary, channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian rebel.
The definitive study of Ned Kelly from Australia's best-selling non-fiction writer.
Peter FitzSimons is one of the Sydney Morning Herald's and Sun
Herald's most popular columnists. He broadcasts daily on Radio 2UE
and is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune
and the London Daily Telegraph. He is the author of seventeen
books, including biographies of Nancy Wake, Nene King, John Eales,
Steve Waugh and Charles Kingsford Smith.
Peter lives with his family in Sydney. Richard Aspel is a talented
narrator of children's and adult audiobooks. He trained and worked
in London, before returning to Australia where he has worked
extensively in television, theatre and radio. His television
credits include Neighbours and Carson's Law, and he provided
various voices for The Silver Brumby animated series. Richard was
nominated for the prestigious Audie Award (US) for his narration of
The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston.
'Eureka is a great tale, a rollicking story with momentum that
sweeps the reader along to the climactic explosion of violence.'
(for Eureka)
*The Australian*
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