Ned Kelly by FitzSimons Peter ISBN B00D72WW9U instant download

Ned Kelly by FitzSimons Peter ISBN B00D72WW9U instant download

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 aspect of the eldest Kelly boy's brushes with the law.
Did he or did he not shoot Constable Fitzpatrick at their family home?
Was he a lawless thug or a noble Robin Hood, a remorseless killer or a
crusader against oppression and discrimination? Was he even a political
revolutionary, an Australian republican channelling the spirit of
Eureka?Peter FitzSimons, bestselling chronicler of many of the great
defining moments and people of this nation's history, is the perfect
person to tell this most iconic of all Australian stories. From Kelly's
early days in Beveridge, Victoria, in the mid-1800s, to the Felons'
Apprehension Act, which made it possible for anyone to shoot the Kelly
gang, to Ned's appearance in his now-famous armour, prompting the
shocked and bewildered police to exclaim 'He is the devil!' and 'He is
the bunyip!', FitzSimons brings the history of Ned Kelly and his gang
exuberantly to life, weighing in on all of the myths, legends and
controversies generated by this compelling and divisive Irish-Australian
rebel.