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Publisher: Five Mile Press (2005) Epub: 2013
ISBN-10: 1741248620
ISBN-13: 978-1741248623
Buccaneers and blood-curdling cannibals, heroes and villains, legends and lowlife. An absorbing cavalcade of characters and events that have helped shape the Australian heritage:
The pirates: From Dampier on - our swashbuckling beginnings.
The Hollywood idols: The extraordinary Errol Flynn and 'The World's Most Perfect Woman', Annette Kellerman - sex symbols who had moviegoers world wide gasping with shock and delight.
The deadly enigmas: The Boggle-Chandler sex scandal and the killings that baffled the world's best. The vanishing ship - what happened to the Waratah, the liner that just disappeared?
The sporting epics: The Sydney title fight that sparked a lynching rampage. The Miracle Mile and Test Cricket's most astonishing win.
The macabre: The husband who murdered her wife. The war hero the government tried to kill. The cannibals who ate a ship's crew.
