Description Hide Description- Show Description+
He was the gun-toting man of God, whose dying wish was to be buried with his male soul-mate, and who enthralled and appalled the nation for more than a decade. This is the story of the notorious bushranger, Captain Moonlite, possibly Australia's first recorded homosexual man.
When a masked and cloaked bandit robbed the bank at a small gold town in 1869, he created the legend of Captain Moonlite. Andrew George Scott is remembered as bushranger, conman, warrior and lunatic. In an 11-year life of crime, he escaped from gaol, took to the road as a prison reformer and fought a pitched gun-battle that made him a household name. He was also man who loved, and was loved unreservedly in return - but more than a century passed before his dying wish to be buried with his soul mate, James Nesbitt, was granted. Charming, articulate and intelligent, this flawed genius was also a thief, a liar and a chameleon whose true story has been lost to myth and misinformation. Yet when he led a pathetic band of misfits to their doom he stood tall at last and proved he was worthy to be their captain.
In Search of Captain Moonlite looks for the man behind the legend. It uses little-seen histories, a remarkable cache of rare documents and the records of his time to rewrite the story of a man who was not what he seemed. In the end, it challenges history's verdict and finds a truth that's even more spectacular than the fiction.
Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 2013
Author: Paul Terry