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Adventurers, pioneers and misfits : Australia's most amazing true life stories / Jim Haynes.

Adventurers, pioneers and misfits : Australia's most amazing true life stories / Jim Haynes.

In the many years Jim has spent talking and writing about the quirkier events and people in our history, he has come across characters whose lives have amazed, surprised and amused him. This is a book about some of those people and their bizarre, remarkable and out of the ordinary lives. And in only the way Jim can, he's discovered that there is always more to the story than first meets the eye. Who knew, example, that the first man hanged in Australia made an artefact now valued at over one million dollars? Or that an Australian swimmer was the highest paid act on the American vaudeville circuit and the star of the first movie ever made with a budget of one million American dollars? And that the father of the first Australian woman to serve in parliament was hanged for murder? These are the stories of lives that capture the heart and soul of the Australian character.

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L044281 NF 994 HAYN
NonFiction   Yeppoon Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781760877620 (pbk.)
176087762X (pbk.)
Author Haynes, Jim, (Australian author and entertainer) author.
Title Adventurers, pioneers and misfits : Australia's most amazing true life stories / Jim Haynes.
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2020.
Description x, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Note Includes bibliographical references.
Summary In the many years Jim has spent talking and writing about the quirkier events and people in our history, he has come across characters whose lives have amazed, surprised and amused him. This is a book about some of those people and their bizarre, remarkable and out of the ordinary lives. And in only the way Jim can, he's discovered that there is always more to the story than first meets the eye. Who knew, example, that the first man hanged in Australia made an artefact now valued at over one million dollars? Or that an Australian swimmer was the highest paid act on the American vaudeville circuit and the star of the first movie ever made with a budget of one million American dollars? And that the father of the first Australian woman to serve in parliament was hanged for murder? These are the stories of lives that capture the heart and soul of the Australian character.
Subjects Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia
Pioneers -- Australia -- Biography
Australia -- Social life and customs
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