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Ned Kelly : the story of Australia's most notorious legend /

Ned Kelly : the story of Australia's most notorious legend /
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Non Fiction   Lake Haven Library . . Available .  
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Author FitzSimons, Peter, 1961- author.
Title Ned Kelly : the story of Australia's most notorious legend / Peter FitzSimons.
Portion of title Story of Australia's most notorious legend.
Published North Sydney, NSW
William Heinemann Australia,
2013.
©2013
Description xviii, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm.
Summary 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, an Australian republican channelling the spirit of Eureka? From Kelly's early days in Beveridge, Victoria, in the mid-1800s, to the Felons' Apprehension Act, which made it possible for anyone to shoot the Kelly gang, to Ned's appearance in his now-famous armour, the author 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.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (pages 728-807) and index.
Subjects Kelly, Ned, -- 1855-1880
Kelly Gang
Bushrangers -- Australia -- Biography
Genre Biography
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