{"product_id":"9780143795773","title":"Moonlite : The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharismatic, intelligent and handsome, George Scott is unlike any other bushranger. Born into a privileged life in famine-wracked Ireland, Scott's family loses its fortune and is forced to flee to New Zealand. There, Scott joins the local militia and fights as a soldier against the Maori in the brutal New Zealand wars.  After recovering from a series of serious gunshot wounds, he sails to Australia and becomes a Lay Preacher, captivating churchgoers with his fiery and inspiring sermons.  But Scott is also prone to bursts of madness. The local villagers back in Ireland often whispered that a 'wild drop' ran in the blood of the Scott family. One night he dons a mask in a small country town, arms himself with a gun and, dubbing himself Captain Moonlite, brazenly robs a bank before staging one of the country's most audacious jailbreaks.  After falling in love with fellow prisoner James Nesbitt, a boyish petty criminal desperately searching for a father figure, Scott finds himself unable to shrug off his criminal past.  Pursued and harassed by the police, he stages a dramatic siege and prepares for a final showdown with the law - and a macabre executioner without a nose.  Meticulously researched and drawing on previously unpublished material, Moonlite is a brilliant work of non-fiction that reads like a novel.  Told at a cracking pace, and based on many of the extensive letters Scott wrote from his death cell, Moonlite is set amid the violent and sexually-repressed era of Australia in the second half of the 19th century.  With a cast of remarkable characters, it weaves together the extraordinary lives of our bushrangers and the desperation of a young nation eager to remove the stains of its convict past.  But most of all, Moonlite is a tragic love story.  For these are the dying days of the bushrangers and Captain Moonlite is about to make his last stand.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Joseph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46474674012239,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":789.58,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9780143795773-1.jpg?v=1787541178","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9780143795773","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}