TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kinsella,John
AU  - Lucy,Niall
TI  - The ballad of Moondyne Joe
SN  - 9781921888526 (pbk.) :
AV  - PR9619.3.K55 B35 2012
U1  - A821.3 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - North Fremantle, W.A.
PB  - Fremantle Press
KW  - Johns, Joseph Bolitho,
KW  - Moondyne Joe
KW  - Convicts
KW  - Australia
KW  - Archival resources
KW  - Bushrangers
KW  - Western Australia
KW  - Biography
KW  - Poetry
KW  - English
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Escapes
KW  - Fremantle (W.A.)
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Fremantle
KW  - Prisoners
KW  - Ballads
KW  - Australian poetry
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Australian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-260) and index; Tertiary/Undergraduate, General
N2  - Moondyne Joe was colonial Australia's ultimate escape artist. His daring and repeated breakouts drove the Governor to build him a special cell. And when Moondyne Joe escaped again, he drove the Governor mad. Moondyne Joe himself died a pauper in Fremantle Lunatic Asylum but not before he gained notoriety as a lawbreaker, the husband of a brothel madam, a bushman who befriended local Indigenous people, and as a folk hero who championed the underdog. Written by John Kinsella, one of Australia's best known poets, and Niall Lucy, a caustic and irreverent social commentator, this book is an anarchic and playful examination of an elusive man and the harsh convict system he resisted
ER  -