Download or read book Harry Readford Alias Captain Starlight written by John Morrison and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harry Readford alias Captain Starlight written by John Morrison and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Harry Readford, born in 1841 on the frontier of the infant colony of New South Wales, who became a proficient bushman, stockman, drover, explorer, pioneer and above all, a renowned cattle duffer, has passed into Australian folklore. The pivotal event in the story was the famous cattle theft in 1870, of 1200 head from the Longreach area of Central Queensland, and droving them nearly 1600 kilometres through virtually unexplored desert country deep into South Australia. This feat, and the subsequent “infamous” trial at the Roma courthouse in 1873, was portrayed in Rolf Boldrewood’s classic novel Robbery Under Arms. Boldrewood created the mythical Captain Starlight, so Harry Readford, already a legend in his own lifetime, became the myth – and rode into history. This book incorporates a complete series of landscape, portrait and narrative paintings, drawings, photographs, maps and text, woven around a theme of major historical and cultural importance, which was signifi cant then and is now.
Download or read book Captain Starlight written by Jane Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in the series features the two men known as "Captain Starlight". Both were bushrangers who travelled widely across the country in the second half of the 19th Century, and although their backgrounds and their crimes differed greatly, they are linked by their connection with a character from a novel. Frank Pearson was the first "Starlight who burst onto the scene in 1868, when he abandoned his practice as a doctor, stole a horse and took off on a bushranging spree that ended in a shoot out and the death of a policeman. Pearson was a very talented man: intelligent, well educated and well read, and a clever artist and composer. He was also a pathological liar with no moral compass whatsoever. He had so many aliases that we don't even know what his real name was. The other was Henry Readford, whose stunning theft of 1000 cattle was the inspiration for the fictional character "Captain Starlight" in Rolf Boldrewoods novel Robbery Under Arms.
Download or read book Mad Dogs and Thunderbolts written by Ben Pobjie and published by Affirm Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned Kelly?s tin helmet looms large over Australia?s bushranging past, but what about all the unsung outlaws of the Australian bush? What about Black Caesar, who escaped his tyrannous British overlords four times and indeed invented the great Australian tradition of bushranging? Or Mad Dog Morgan who set out to write his name in blood on history?s ledger, the dynamic Captain Thunderbolt and his loyal wife Mary Ann Bugg, bushranging?s greatest queen, and Matthew Brady, the gentleman bushranger, who showed us all the cilivised side of armed robbery? In Mad Dogs and Thunderbolts Ben Pobjie celebrates the derring-do and revolutionary passion of all the wild colonial boys and girls who raided our towns and stole our hearts, all while wearing sensible headgear.
Download or read book Kings of the Cattle Country written by Nigel Austin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Last Bushrangers written by John Morrison and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is John Morrison’s latest illustrated book in his bushranger series. Read about the exploits of these dashing young men, their poor choices in life and their tragic outcome. John has drawn from multiple sources of historic evidence and added an overlay of folklore, legend and local knowledge. The dramatic images of the landscapes, characters and action round out the text and complete the story of the last great bushrangers – Pat and Jim Kenniff.
Download or read book Robbery Under Arms written by Rolf Boldrewood and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cultural Cold War written by Frances Stonor Saunders and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA’s] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA’s undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA’s astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.
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Download or read book The Sign of the Joker The Clown Prince of Crime as a Sign written by Joel West and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Joker’s debuted as a “typical hoodlum” and yet, he has grown and changed over time, to become what is often called “The Clown Prince of Crime.” This work takes a close look at the Joker and examines his place in our cultural landscape to better understand how it is that he fascinates us all.
Download or read book Captain Starlight written by Jane Smith and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth book in the series features the two men known as ''''Captain Starlight''''. Both were bushrangers who travelled widely across the country in the second half of the 19th Century, and although their backgrounds and their crimes differed greatly, they are linked by their connection with a character from a novel. Frank Pearson was the first ''''Starlight who burst onto the scene in 1868, when he abandoned his practice as a doctor, stole a horse and took off on a bushranging spree that ended in a shoot out and the death of a policeman. Pearson was a very talented man: intelligent, well educated and well read, and a clever artist and composer. He was also a pathological liar with no moral compass whatsoever. He had so many aliases that we dont even know what his real name was. The other was Henry Readford, whose stunning theft of 1000 cattle was the inspiration for the fictional character ''''Captain Starlight'''' in Rolf Boldrewoods novel Robbery Under Arms.
