Book description
The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw
When Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly…
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What sets this book apart from Kieza’s other book on the Kelly story, Mrs. Kelly, is that it concentrates on telling the stories of the men who tracked the outlaws down, many of whom were largely forgotten, including the Aboriginal trackers who were employed to track the gang in the Australian bush. As is the trend in such books, the history is written in a style more akin to a novel which makes it easy to digest. Kieza also positions himself firmly on the side that opposes the notion of Ned Kelly as a folk hero, which creates a…
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