Ned Kelly
Book description
Love him or loathe him, Ned Kelly has been at the heart of Australian culture and identity since he and his Gang were tracked down in bushland by the Victorian police and came out fighting, dressed in bulletproof iron armour made from farmers' ploughs.
Historians still disagree over virtually every…
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This is the book I usually recommend these days to people wanting to get into Ned Kelly as it covers a much broader view of the Kelly story than Ian Jones’ books while still retaining that almost novelistic approach to the text. It’s a sort of one-stop shop for those who want to know a little about a lot when it comes to Ned, and ties together a lot of different areas of research on the subject.
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