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From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories

• Publisher : Allen & Unwin
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• Release Date : 03 November 2020

The petty thief . . . who escaped Van Diemen's Land, twice, stole the government brig and set sail for Japan, where, by the Shogun's decree, all foreigners were to be executed. The

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From an eccentric musical genius to an escaped convict who ended up Japan, Jim Haynes reveals some of Australia's most amazing, and sometimes unbelievable, true life stories.

• Publisher : Allen & Unwin
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• Release Date : 02 November 2021

Jim Haynes upturns some of the long-held myths of Australian history with surprising results. With all the skills of the master storyteller that he is, Jim Haynes exposes some of

• Publisher : Allen & Unwin
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• Release Date : 01 November 2022

An incredible collection of true crime characters from Australia's master storyteller. The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad... Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 04 August 2020

How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 10 March 2016

This volume provides an in-depth discussion on the central question – how can people express and survive dissent and disagreement in confined habitats in space? The discussion is an important one

• Publisher : Random House Australia
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• Release Date : 27 June 2016

Captain Edward Denny Day--the only law "from the Big River to the sea"--was Australia's greatest lawman, yet few have heard of him. This is his story. Once there was

• Publisher : Lulu.com
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This Book Two of the Earth Manifesto contains a provocative biography of the estimable author Mark Twain along with a variety of valuable ecological insights and entertainingly interesting philosophical ideas.

• Publisher : Forge Books
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• Release Date : 29 June 2002

"Walker constructs a compelling narrative that is a string of unusual profiles rather than an analytic account of a major event in American history." - Publishers Weekly The Oregon Country!