Name: Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody end of the Bushrangers (en Inglés)
SKU: 53500529
Price: 125019.00 COP
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Author: Garry Linnell
ISBN: 9780143795773

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Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody end of the Bushrangers (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Michael Joseph

Autor

Garry Linnell

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

368

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780143795773

Categorías

Australasia
Historia de australasia y del pacífico

Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody end of the Bushrangers (en Inglés)

Garry Linnell (Autor) · Michael Joseph · Tapa Blanda

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Charismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott’s family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the brutal New Zealand wars. After recovering from a series of serious gunshot wounds, he sails to Australia and becomes a Lay Preacher, captivating churchgoers with his fiery and inspiring sermons. But Scott is also prone to bursts of madness. The local villagers back in Ireland often whispered that a 'wild drop' ran in the blood of the Scott family. One night he dons a mask in a small country town, arms himself with a gun and, dubbing himself Captain Moonlite, brazenly robs a bank before staging one of the country’s most audacious jailbreaks. After falling in love with fellow prisoner James Nesbitt, a boyish petty criminal desperately searching for a father figure, Scott finds himself unable to shrug off his criminal past. Pursued and harassed by the police, he stages a dramatic siege and prepares for a final showdown with the law – and a macabre executioner without a nose. Meticulously researched and drawing on previously unpublished material, Moonlite is a brilliant work of non-fiction that reads like a novel. Told at a cracking pace, and based on many of the extensive letters Scott wrote from his death cell, Moonlite is set amid the violent and sexually-repressed era of Australia in the second half of the 19th century. With a cast of remarkable characters, it weaves together the extraordinary lives of our bushrangers and the desperation of a young nation eager to remove the stains of its convict past. But most of all, Moonlite is a tragic love story. For these are the dying days of the bushrangers and Captain Moonlite is about to make his last stand.