Ripping Yarns 2: Pirates and Poisoners, Scoundrels and Screen Stars, Ratbags and Rogues

Stories teacher didn't tell! Buccaneers and blood-curdling cannibals, heroes and villains, legends and lowlife. An absorbing cavalcade of characters and events that have helped shape the Australian heritage. The pirates: from Dampier on - our swashbuckling heritage. The Hollywood idols: Errol Flynn and Annette Kellerman - sex symbols who had moviegoers worldwide gasping with shock and delight. The deadly enigmas: the Bogle-Chandler sex scandal and the killings that bafrled the world's best.The vanishing ship - what happened to the Waratah? The sporting epics: the Sydney title fight that sparked a lynching. The miracle mile and Test cricket's most astonishing win. The macabre: the husband her murdered her wife. The cannibals who ate the crew.