Boundary crossers : the hidden history of Australia's other bushrangers / Meg Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foster, Meg, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bushrangers--Australia--Biography.

Bushrangers.

Bushrangers--Australia--History.

Australia.

Genre:

Biographies

History

Biographies.

Physical Description:

228 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kensington, New South Wales : NewSouth Books, 2022.

Summary:

Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of inept and corrupt authorities. But not all Australian bushrangers were seen in this glowing light in their own time. And not all were white men. In Boundary Crossers, historian Meg Foster reveals the stories of bushrangers who didn't fit the mould. African American man Black Douglas, who was seen as the terror of the Victorian goldfields, Sam Poo, known as Australia's only Chinese bushranger, Aboriginal man Jimmy Governor, who was renowned as a mass murderer, and Captain Thunderbolt's partner, Aboriginal woman Mary Ann Bugg, whose extraordinary exploits extended well beyond her time as 'the Captain's Lady'. These bushrangers' remarkable lives have been forgotten, obscured, misrepresented or erased from the national story for over a century, and this is no accident. All is not as it appears. There is far more to these bushrangers, and their histories, than immediately meets the eye.

Contents:

Introduction

The legendary Black Douglas

The life and times of William Douglas

The many histories of Sam Poo

The making of Mary Ann Bugg

The Govenor family

Jimmy Govenor the Bushranger

Afterword

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781742237527

1742237525

OCLC:

1340410458