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Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781038720269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags written by Jim Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761185586
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags Jim Haynes profiles fifteen larger-than-life Aussie rogues - some of our greatest ne'er-do-wells from colonial times to the modern era. These stories uncover the truth and expose the myths about characters ranging from the most despicable examples of humanity, to those whose courage has to be admired and whose so-called 'crimes' were unjustly punished. This fascinating collection features felons who have sprung from Australia's underbelly since 1788, such as the infamous Kate Leigh of the razor gangs; the convict Mary Bryant, who in 1791 escaped from the Sydney penal settlement and somehow made it back to England; James Hardy Vaux, who was sent to Australia no less than three times; Henry James O'Farrell, the madman who attempted to murder Prince Alfred in Sydney in 1868; and John Leak, who was repeatedly charged with insolence, disobedience and being absent without leave in World War I - and awarded the Victoria Cross. Told with Jim's inimitable combination of history and humour, Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and Ratbags is packed with murders, mystery and miscreants: true stories of true criminals from Australia's past. 'entertaining . . . highly readable . . . you will find some genuinely amazing new facts and insights.' ArtsHub
Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 176118797X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's most amazing characters of the convict age. 'Aussies love a good story and entertainer Jim Haynes has been telling them for decades' —Courier-Mail In Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia, our master storyteller Jim Haynes has collected a fascinating cast of characters who embody the resourcefulness, bravery, defiance, successes and tragedies of the convict era, the men and women who forged the nation we would one day become. There's Joseph Banks, the true founder of the colony; Surgeon John White, the saviour of the First Fleet; Pemulwuy, the Bidjigal freedom fighter; Mary Reiby, the horse thief who made good; Sapy Lovell, the Eora gypsy convict; John Donohue, the wild colonial boy; Lady Jane Franklin, the true leader of Van Diemen's Land – and many more! Why did transportation occur, why did it end, and what was it like living in Australia from 1788 to 1870? Skilfully researched and told in Jim's warm and witty style, Heroes, Rebels and Radicals of Convict Australia answers these questions and brings to life well-known and unknown figures from Australia's history as a penal settlement. This is the true story of the colonisation of Australia. 'In a year when we could all use a different perspective Jim Haynes came to the rescue with his latest sojourn into history . . . a cast of colourful characters.' —Spectator
Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1761063219
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Great Furphies of Australian History written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the great myths of Australian history. Did you know that Portuguese and Spanish explorers probably found the east coast of Australia before Captain Cook, and that the Rum Rebellion was not caused by rum? And what about Banjo Paterson writing Waltzing Matilda? As for Ned Kelly being a brave freedom-fighting rebel, in truth he was a thief, a thug and a murderer. The Ashes have nothing to do with cricket, the Ghan is not named after Afghan cameleers and Hargraves lied about discovering gold in New South Wales. Surprising, confounding, revealing and fun, Jim Haynes takes us on another great journey through Australian history and folklore.
Author : Kevin Childs
Publisher : Lothian Children's Books
ISBN 13 : 9780734407696
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Prince of Australia written by Kevin Childs and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful collection of stories of colourful Australian characters, featuring profiles of the cheeky, outrageous and daring people who shaped Australian culture, including brothel keepers, pickpockets, inventors, policemen and showmen, politicians and speculators. Many of these people have slipped through the cracks of our nation's history, including the self-titled 'Prince of Australia'. Read this book and meet an amazing array of real characters whose lives will amaze and astound you!
Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1760872660
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Big Book of Australia's War Stories written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of poignant, horrific, sad and sometimes dryly humorous stories and tales about wartime experiences of Australian's on the front lines, in the air and on the sea. 'The bravest thing God ever made,' said a British officer of the insubordinate Aussies at Gallipoli. And before the Normandy invasion, Field Marshal Montgomery's chief of staff remarked, 'I only wish we had the Australian 9th Division with us this morning'. But there is more to the Australian experience of war than heroic endeavour and bravery. Jim Haynes has rediscovered stories that are as harrowing as they are uplifting, as strange as they are brutal and as heart-breaking as they are humorous. From Federation to the Vietnam War, from our first VC winner to our hundredth, this sweeping overview of Australia's military adventures both overseas and at home is a guide to understanding how this nation's role in the twentieth century's major conflicts unfolded as each war ebbed and flowed. These stories have formed Australia's collective memory of war. Some battles and campaigns are household names, although their historical significance may have been lost. Others are barely remembered now but are part of our history and deserve to be retold. These are the accounts, recollections and legends that explain Australia's wartime reputation. They demonstrate the extraordinary courage, resilience, stoic humour, personal heroism and sacrifice that created the mythology of the Aussie 'digger' - the soldiers, sailors, nurses and flyers who did things their own way and earned the undying respect of both their allies and their enemies.
Author : Robert D Broughton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781686312427
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Louise Hathcock written by Robert D Broughton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Crime Story- Louise Hathcock was married to the notorious Jack Hathcock who owned several clubs and dives along the Tennessee/Mississippi state line during the 1940-1960"s. Murder was common, gambling, strong-arm robbery, prostitution and bootlegging were on the daily itinerary of things to do. Her rise from humble beginnings to the infamous shootout with the famous Sheriff Buford Pusser is captured in this book
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
ISBN 13 : 1802790470
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book I Am a Hitman written by Anonymous and published by Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unbelievable account of life as a hitman from a man who has been doing it for decades Hitmen commit heinous crimes virtually every day of the week and, in most instances, we don’t even realize. He’s been a killer for hire for more than twenty years now, but life as a fulltime professional assassin has never been easy. There have been close calls, failed attempts and a lot of looking over his shoulder. And now, he has decided to come clean and seek atonement for his life as a murderer and one of the most covertly dangerous men alive. An account of a life lived between our world and a shadowy underworld of criminals, a life lived under the radar of the law, a life lived in death. This is the true story of a hitman.
Author : Jillian Lauren
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1728267773
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Behold the Monster written by Jillian Lauren and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades? As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren's coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little's victims only escalated. New York Times bestselling author and lead of the Starz docuseries Confronting a Serial Killer Jillian Lauren delivers the harrowing report of her unusual relationship with a psychopath. But this is more than a deep dive into the actions of Samuel Little. Lauren's riveting and emotional accounts reveal the women who were lost to cold files, giving Little's victims a chance to have their stories heard for the first time.
Author : Egil "Bud" Krogh
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250851637
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)
Download or read book The White House Plumbers written by Egil "Bud" Krogh and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOON TO BE A FIVE-PART HBO SERIES, STARRING WOODY HARRELSON AND JUSTIN THEROUX The true story of The White House Plumbers, a secret unit inside Nixon's White House, and their ill-conceived plans stop the leaking of the Pentagon Papers, and how they led to Watergate and the President's demise. On July 17, 1971, Egil “Bud” Krogh was summoned to a closed-door meeting by his mentor—and a key confidant of the president—John Ehrlichman. Expecting to discuss the most recent drug control program launched in Vietnam, Krogh was shocked when Ehrlichman handed him a file and the responsibility for the Special Investigations Unit, or SIU, later to be notoriously known as “The Plumbers.” The Plumbers’ work, according to Nixon, was critical to national security: they were to investigate the leaks of top secret government documents, including the Pentagon Papers, to the press. Driven by blind loyalty, diligence, and dedication, Krogh, along with his co-director, David Young, set out to handle the job, eventually hiring G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt, who would lead the break-in to the office of Dr. Fielding, a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, the man they suspected was doing the leaking. Krogh had no idea that his decisions would soon lead to one of the most famous conspiracies in presidential history and the demise of the Nixon administration. The White House Plumbers is Krogh’s account of what really happened behind the closed doors of the Nixon White House, and how a good man can make bad decisions, and the redemptive power of integrity. Including the story of how Krogh served time and later rebuilt his life, The White House Plumbers is gripping, thoughtful, and a cautionary tale of placing loyalty over principle.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646848969
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Destination Sydney written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney is a city blessed with an extraordinary natural environment - a beauty that has been defined and refined by the male gaze of artists drawn to this place since the early 19th century. From Martens, Streeton and Roberts, to Rees, Whiteley and Olsen, male artists have successfully driven the process of interpreting and reinterpreting the harbour city while the work of female artists has been comparatively ignored or recognized only in the genres of interiors or still lifes. The new millennium calls for a reconsideration of this legacy and an exploration of the work of women artists in defining the art of Sydney in the 21st century - Destination Sydney: The natural world is a response to this call.This is the third (and final) iteration of the Destination Sydney series, developed and presented by Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Mosman Art Gallery and S. H. Ervin Gallery. The first two exhibitions featured well known Australian artists whose landscape visions of Sydney changed our perception of the city. The nine artists each showed the wide range and complexities of landscape paintings and demonstrated their popularity in Australian art. This third iteration now brings the series up to date and showcases a broader range of media to include painting, photography, sculpture and ceramics. All but one of the artists is living and in a nod to contemporary curatorial thinking and practice, all of the artists and their associated essayists are female. Each of the artists has created works that are becoming synonymous with the Sydney landscape, in new and innovative ways. The strap line of the exhibition, The natural world, clearly identifies the intention to show artists whose interests are again landscape and landforms, but with the added analytical appreciation and understanding of the environment. Artists selected for this exhibition include Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Merran Esson (Manly Art Gallery & Museum), Janet Laurence, Caroline Rothwell, Robyn Stacey (Mosman Art Gallery), and Bronwyn Oliver, Juz Kitson and Jennifer Keeler-Milne (S.H. Ervin Gallery).
Author : Frits Maaten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646474021
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Justice for Jamie written by Frits Maaten and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1991 the body of 60 year old gay man, Francis Barry Arnoldt, was found stabbed to death outside a sporting pavilion in a suburban park in Melbourne. He had been murdered the previous night. Mr Arnoldt was a wealthy man, however he was suffering from leukaemia, and didn't have long to live. The day prior to his death he had said he was intending to change his will. Victoria police investigated, and described his death as 'homosexually orientated', and the State Coroner found that Mr. Arnoldt had been killed at the park by a person, or persons unknown. Five and a half years later, in March 1997, another gay man, 28 year old Jamie Koeleman, a known teller of tall stories, told a former boyfriend a story in which he claimed to have killed Mr. Arnoldt during a sex act. He later explained that he made up the story, basing it on media reports of the murder, and from scenes in the 1979 movie 'Cruising' starring Al Pacino. Despite his friend later saying he didn't believe the story, he nevertheless decided to report it to police. An extraordinary entrapment plan was put into place, resulting in the friend wearing a 'wire' and the introduction to Koeleman of an undercover police operative who would pose as a gay man with a fetish for knives and kinky sex. Whilst under the influence of marijuana and alcohol, Koeleman was lead into retelling his story whilst being covertly recorded. Although virtually nothing he said matched the known facts of Arnoldt's death, and despite a total lack of hard evidence, Koeleman was convicted of the murder in the Supreme Court of Victoria and sentenced to 19 years jail. A support group was formed to raise funds for an appeal, however the appeal was unsuccessful, and Koeleman remains incarcerated. The author, a former campaigner for the release of Lindy Chamberlain, believes that both the coroner and the Supreme Court were misled, and that vital evidence was withheld, which led to Jamie being convicted of a murder he did not commit.
Author : Jim Haynes
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1952535700
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories written by Jim Haynes and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that in 1932 the Australian army was called out to wage war on an invading army of 20,000...emus? Or that the first royal personage to arrive in Australia was the King of Iceland and he came as a convict? And how about the spooky phenomenon of the mischief-making Guyra Ghost? From Jim Haynes, one of our most successful and prolific tellers of yarns and bush tales, comes this ultimate collection of unbelievable true Australian stories: the unknown, the forgotten, the surprising, the truly weird and the completely inexplicable. Told with a refreshing understatement, Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories vividly evokes a vanishing Australia when anything was possible, when characters were larger than life and the bizarre and strange were normal.
Author : Phillip Tardif
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls written by Phillip Tardif and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Notorious strumpets tells the story of more than 1,600 convict women who came to Van Diemen's Land before 1830. Their experiences as convicts were infinately diverse. For some their lives where marked with tragedy, others faced brutality; some found a type of redemption, while others spent their lives rebelling against the colonial authority. Many built a new life for themselves in their new land" -- Screen.
Author : Alan Weberman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986760942
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (69 download)
Download or read book The Miscreant written by Alan Weberman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entire event could have been avoid if Campus Monitor Andrew Medina would have tackled the Miscreant when he saw him enter Stoneman Douglas with a backpack and duffel bag. He admitted to this author that he was 300 feet away from Cruz and recognized him but instead of tackling and disarming him he called Scot Peterson, yes the same Broward Coward who refused to enter the school and confront the shooter but instead waiting outside advising others not to enter. This is only one revelation the reader with find in the book that relies on documents and interviews with the principals involved. It details how transplants from New York City brought their liberal ideas about mental illness to Florida and how Jameson Snead convinced his father to let Cruz live with his family. His father James let the Miscreant have access to the weapon used in the mass murder but was given in Mulligan by the media because of White skin privilege. It explains why the FBI failed to act on at least two tips due to Obama and Holder and Lynch hiring FBI on the basis of race rather than competency. It explains why the Miscreant was never sent to a mental hospital for evaluation and names the wimps who saved his ass.
Author : William Dick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Bunch of Ratbags written by William Dick and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denise Hofman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743467060
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Forever Nine written by Denise Hofman and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREVER NINE chronicles the abduction and murder of Sydney schoolgirl Samantha Knight, who seemingly vanished into thin air from busy Bondi Road, in the late afternoon of August 1986. Her disappearance remained a mystery until 2002 when Michael Anthony Guider pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received a 12-year jail sentence. Co-author Denise Hofman met Guider in the mid-1990s and worked closely with him on conservation projects until he was suddenly charged with dozens of child sex offences - and she learned he'd once secretly known Sam. Based on never-before-published eyewitness accounts, FOREVER NINE is at once an inspiring personal story, a redemptive tale of police blindness, and a vivid portrait of a killer who could soon be free.
