02223nam 2200433 450 991079448550332120230126221851.01-76106-053-8(CKB)4100000011526013(MiAaPQ)EBC6374657(EXLCZ)99410000001152601320210310d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdventurers, pioneers and misfits Australia's most amazing true life stories /Jim HaynesSydney, New South Wales :Allen & Unwin,[2020]©20201 online resource (276 pages) illustrations1-76087-762-X Includes bibliographical references.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.Frontier and pioneer lifeAustraliaPioneersAustraliaBiographyAustraliaSocial life and customsAustraliaBiographyFrontier and pioneer lifePioneers920.0994Haynes Jim(Australian author and entertainer),1470290MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910794485503321Adventurers, pioneers and misfits3816041UNINA