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Adventurers, pioneers and misfits : Australia's most amazing true life stories
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001	$ 000068057875
020	$a9781760877620
082	$a920.0994
100	$aHaynes, Jim
300	$ax, 264 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c23 cm.
504	$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 262-264)
520	$aIn 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.
650	$aFrontier and pioneer life
650	$aPioneers
651	$aAustralia$xSocial life and customs.