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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817240703321

Autore

Terry Paul (Journalist)

Titolo

In search of Captain Moonlite : the strange life and death of the notorious bushranger / / Paul Terry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2013

ISBN

1-74343-516-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

940.3

Soggetti

Bushrangers - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover ; About the author; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; 1 MAN AND MYTH; 2 BEGINNINGS; 3 MAN OF GOD; 4 'THE FRAIL, FAIR ONE'; 5 ISLAND DREAMS; 6 BREAKOUT; 7 'QUEST FOR BLOOD'; 8 THE REFORMER; 9 THE LONG WALK; 10 WANTABADGERY STATION; 11 THE GUNFIGHT; 12 GUNDAGAI; 13 THE TRIAL; 14 THE LADY IN BLACK; 15 MOONLITE'S END; 16 A ROUGH, UNHEWN ROCK; Selected References; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869 he created the legend of Captain Moonlite, the gun-toting man of God who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade. Real name Andrew George Scott, he is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and lunatic. In an 11-year life of crime, he escaped from gaol, took to the road as a prison reformer and fought a pitched gun-battle that made him a household name. He was a man who loved, and was loved unreservedly in return - but more than a century passed before his dying wish to be buried with his soul ma