Red Jack and the Ragged Thirteen by Greg Barron

Red Jack and the Ragged Thirteen by Greg BarronAustralia in the 1880s. A new breed of settler was pushing out into the frontier, into the last bastions of the Aboriginal nations. Horsemen, prospectors and speculators, riding a new, independent spirit, forged in the Eureka Stockade, and hardened through a tough, physical life. This is the story of Red Jack and Ragged Thirteen, researched and written by Australian author Greg Barron. Paperback 290 pages ISBN: 978 0 6480627 7 6 They called her Red

incarceration

It's a book to be devoured

Born in 1894

A scrawled address includes the promise of a reward to deliver the package to a station-owner in Western Queensland

Notorious bushranger Henry Hawke has spent ten years in chains

reading it

can they find a way to open up to each other before the shadowy forces shut her up

reads and writes Vietnamese and Pidgin

"Just finished reading

280 page Paperback

and lands a cadetship with the Cairns Post

Facey's simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man