Author, Ian Jones, the acknowledged Kelly authority, shares with us the results of a lifetime s research. For the first time Ned Kelly truly emerges as a man a man who hated conflict yet never escaped it. A man who was seen, even in his own lifetime, as what he represented rather than what he was, and whose enemies even more than his allies helped to make him a legend.

This edition in the Bolinda Classics series has a new introduction and a fully revised concluding chapter.