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Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons is one of the Sydney Morning Herald's and Sun Herald's most popular columnists. He broadcasts daily on Radio 2UE and is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune and the London Daily Telegraph. He is the author of seventeen books, including biographies of Nancy Wake, Nene King, John Eales, Steve Waugh and Charles Kingsford Smith. Peter lives with his family in Sydney.

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Title:

Ned Kelly: The Story of Australia's Most Notorious Legend

Written by:

Peter FitzSimons 

Read by:

Richard Aspel 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

24 

Duration:

29 hours 4 minutes 

Published:

November 01 2013 

Available Date:

November 01 2013 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781486202034 

Genres:

Non-fiction; 19th Century; Australian; Historical 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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'Eureka is a great tale, a rollicking story with momentum that sweeps the reader along to the climactic explosion of violence.' (for Eureka)
The Australian

The definitive study of Ned Kelly from Australia's best-selling non-fiction writer.

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, channelling the spirit of Eureka? Peter 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.