Overview
Joe was a widow's teenage son with dreams of something better than life on a dairy farm. Ah Nam was a miner with a taste for booze, women, gambling and fighting. By a twist of fate their paths would cross and Joe's life would never be the same again. Georgina Stones shines a light on a forgotten chapter in the early life of one of Australia's most infamous outlaws and brings to light some of the forgotten denizens of Beechworth, with original illustrations by Aidan Phelan, as well as essays, contemporary images and articles.
Full Product Details
Author: Georgina R Stones ,
Aidan Phelan
Publisher: Georgina Stones
Imprint: Georgina Stones
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.313kg
ISBN: 9780645378405
ISBN 10: 0645378402
Pages: 122
Publication Date: 03 February 2022
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Author Information
"Georgina Stones was born and raised in Tasmania, but has recently made themove across Bass Strait to reside in Victoria. She has a love of history, with thelives of Australian outlaws Joe Byrne and Michael Howe her main interests inthat field.She attended school in Ulverstone and has since studied journalism throughDeakin University. Her natural inquisitiveness and perseverance have paid off inher work on An Outlaw's Journal, uncovering many previously forgotten or over-looked aspects of the life of Joe Byrne, particularly in regards to his early life andconnections to the Chinese community. She also researches and writes for herwebsite Michael Howe: Governor of the Woods for which she has been interviewedon ABC Radio and featured in Traces magazine. Aidan Phelan is the writer and historian for A Guide to Australian Bushranging, which has been bringing Australia's outlaw heritage to a worldwide audience since 2017. In 2021 he was featured in a series of interviews on ABC Radio Hobart and Northern Tasmania discussing the history of bushrangers in Tasmania, and was interviewed for The Hobart Magazine about bushranger ""Rocky"" Whelan.He has also worked as an illustrator, contributing work for Judy Lawson's The Clarke Bushrangers: A Clash of Cultures in 2020, and regularly provides illustrations for An Outlaw's Journal by Georgina Stones.In 2020 he self-published his first novel, Glenrowan, which dramatised the final months of the Kelly Outbreak. He is also developing Glenrowan as a television miniseries with filmmaker Matthew Holmes (The Legend of Ben Hall)."
