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Cover
Australian Ripping Yarns II
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Buccaneers, cut-throats and castaways
The pirate who put us on the map
The Trial and the treachery
The fat lady on the good ship Venus
They fell among cannibals
Chapter 2: Our dark story
‘I’m not dead! For God’s sake, don’t cover me up!’
Black pearls and the butchered bishop
The man King Lash couldn’t tame
Chapter 3: What’s in a bushranger’s name?
Captain Moonlite’s walk on the wild side
Did Thunderbolt go to his own funeral?
Give a dog a bad name
Chapter 4: The Foreign Legion
The world’s most perfect woman
Just a very naughty boy
Our star turns at the Vigilantes’ necktie party
The Boys’ Own Adventures of the Most Influential Australian Who Ever Lived
Chapter 5: Good sports, bad sports
A chip off the young block
Black day at Rushcutters Bay
The look that lost the race of the century
Chapter 6: Mad, bad and dangerous to know
The gold pirates of Port Melbourne
The Monty Python Murder
The husband who murdered her wife
The Desperate Housewife of Frogs Hollow
The witch who danced with the devil
Chapter 7: Beating the cruel sea
The soul survivors
‘A man on the rocks! There he is!’
Chapter 8: Deep secrets
HMAS
The bathtub revelation of Claude Sawyer
The canine clue to the Bogle
Chapter 9: Ratbags and rogues
The comet who crashed
The obscene end of Eugene Goossens
The spy who never was
Chapter 10: Hats off to the unsung heroes
The man with the Nelson touch
How Horrie the Wog Dog hoaxed us all
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