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The powerful true story of life with Rod Ansell, known by many as 'the original Crocodile Dundee'. Joanne van Os was just twenty-two when she met Rod Ansell. At twenty-three Rod was already a legend in Australia and around the world, having survived alone for two months without supplies in one of the harshest and most remote parts of northern Australia.To Joanne, Rod was a a genuine hero who could do anything, could make anything out of nothing, told the funniest yarns, had a philosophy on everything. She married him, and they had two beautiful sons who idolised their father. Together they lived the tough life of outback bull catchers and cattle musterers.But as time went on Joanne came to realise that Rod was both a complicated and deeply troubled man. For the sake of her sons she never gave up on Rod, even after their divorce, but just how far he'd gone only became apparent when his life ended in tragedy- out of his mind on drugs, Rod became involved in a shootout in which a young police office was killed. 'How does someone, whose extraordinary story of survival in the wild inspired so many Australians, become a psychotic, drug-crazed gunman?' Joanne asks.OUTBACK HEART captures the Territory life on paper- the dust, the heat, the struggle and the larger-than-life characters. But it's also a deeply moving and powerful story of a love affair and a marriage, and the pain when it all falls apart. It's the story of Rod Ansell, but even more it is Joanne's story, of how a young, naive woman grows up the hard way, and has the most exhilarating and the most heartbreaking times doing it.Product Identifiers
PublisherTransworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
ISBN-139781863255936
eBay Product ID (ePID)178339099
Product Key Features
Book TitleOutback Heart
AuthorJoanne Van Os
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages368 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height197mm
Item Width128mm
Item Weight256g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJoanne Van Os
Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia
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- 02 Jul, 2020
Outback Heart
A very interesting look at life in very remote part of Australia. A great book to read that describes life in isolation and how resilient the people who lived there.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 13 Jul, 2017
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