Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City

Jim Haynes
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Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we’ve never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how did a clever bushman who couldn’t lie straight in bed” steal a thousand head of cattle and get away with it even though he was caught “”red handed””? And what about the disappearing work of art that suddenly dissolved only to reappear at an auction years later? Or how about the butcher from Wagga who passed himself off as a French-born English duke to inherit a small fortune. And then there was the small matter of a horse

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AuthorJim Haynes
PublisherAllen & Unwin, Australia
Year Published2018
Book Condition

As new.

Binding Type

Softcover

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