The Ghost And The Bounty Hunter

Download or read book The Ghost And The Bounty Hunter written by Adam Courtenay and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive. The outside world finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, after John Batman, a bounty hunter from Van Diemen's Land, arrived in the area, seeking to acquire and control the perfect pastureland around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city. The frontier wars had begun. By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter is a fascinating and poignant true story from Australian colonial history.

Download or read book The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter: William Buckley, John Batman and the Theft of Bunjil Country written by Adam Courtenay and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was Just after Christmas 1803, a convict called William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness. A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier cold and starving. Perhaps thinking he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language, skills and methods to survive. Colonists finally caught up with Buckley in 1835, the same year the former bounty hunter John Batman arrived in the area, looking to acquire the rolling grasslands around the bay. What happened next saw the Wadawurrung betrayed and Buckley eventually broken. The theft of Kulin country would end in the birth of a city. The frontier wars had begun. By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never Was, The Ghost and the Bounty Hunter is a fascinating and poignant true story from Australian colonial history.

Download or read book Haunted written by Kelley Armstrong and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eve Levine, who is "half-demon, black witch and devoted mother," must hunt a supernatural creature called the Nix, which possesses people contemplating murder and compels them to finish the deed.

Download or read book Star Wars written by Paul Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A role-playing game-book based on the adventures of Havet Storm, the grandson of a Jedi Knight who discovers he has inherited The Force and eventually joins the Rebel Alliance. Readers have the chance to fight the evil Empire, Bounty Hunters and an assortment of evil space creatures.

Download or read book Dark Ghost written by Christine Feehan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a wounded warrior and a woman on the run find salvation, passion and unimaginable danger in the ghostly darkness of the Carpathian Mountains… Monk. Bounty hunter. Vampire slayer. Andre Boroi has spent centuries battling the undead, holding out against the dark with honor. But now, gravely wounded by master vampire Costin Popescu, Andre will be easy to track. His only chance is to disappear into the gray mist of the Carpathians. To wait. To hope. In the mountains in search of a precious crystal, geologist Teagan Joanes suddenly finds herself hunted by those she once trusted. Then she comes across the warrior—wounded, wanting and irresistible. Andre has been craving her for an eternity: his lifemate. Her warmth envelops him. Her scent pulsates. And with every beat of her heart, Teagan surrenders to a passion she can’t possibly comprehend...

Download or read book The Ship That Never Was written by Adam Courtenay and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest escape story of Australian colonial history by the son of Australia’s best-loved storyteller In 1823, cockney sailor and chancer James Porter was convicted of stealing a stack of beaver furs and transported halfway around the world to Van Diemen's Land. After several escape attempts from the notorious penal colony, Porter, who told authorities he was a 'beer-machine maker', was sent to Macquarie Harbour, known in Van Diemen's Land as hell on earth. Many had tried to escape Macquarie Harbour; few had succeeded. But when Governor George Arthur announced that the place would be closed and its prisoners moved to the new penal station of Port Arthur, Porter, along with a motley crew of other prisoners, pulled off an audacious escape. Wresting control of the ship they'd been building to transport them to their fresh hell, the escapees instead sailed all the way to Chile. What happened next is stranger than fiction, a fitting outcome for this true-life picaresque tale. The Ship That Never Was is the entertaining and rollicking story of what is surely the greatest escape in Australian colonial history. James Porter, whose memoirs were the inspiration for Marcus Clarke's For the Term of his Natural Life, is an original Australian larrikin whose ingenuity, gift of the gab and refusal to buckle under authority make him an irresistible anti-hero who deserves a place in our history.

Download or read book Ghost Rider written by Greg Cox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official film tie-in to the March 2007 action-packed supernatural blockbuster from Marvel Comics and Sony Pictures - starring Nicolas Cage and Peter Fonda.