Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards

Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary

Kel Richards

320 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

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The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir. If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict. These word...

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