The Bushranger Harry Power

Tutor of Ned Kelly

by Kevin Passey and Gary Dean

Victorian Bushranger Enterprises, 1991, [First Edition], ISBN 0646029967, black and white photographs, paperback  

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, stain mark to front cover, minor creasing to title page (see photographs)

“This book is the joint effort of two people, Kevin Passey and Gary Dean, who combined their personal research files to produce what must be regarded as a history book in the proper sense of the word.
Kevin, who has been keenly interested in colonial history since he was a youth, is a self-taught historian who already has two hard-cover books on the subject of bushranging to his credit, and been awarded a Fellowship by the Australian Institute of History and arts.  The other half of the project, Gary Dean, is a fifth generation Australian, who for many years now has been carrying out research into the Kelly gang and is the owner of the Cobb and Co. souvenir gift shop in Glenrowan, which will eventually be combined with a museum on his favourite subject and various other Australiana.  Also imbibed with the urge to write, Gary has already combined with the authoress Dagmar Balcarek F.A.I.H.A., with their 1990 book, “To Crack a Whip”, which naturally was about members of the Kelly clan.
But with this manuscript about the life and crimes of Harry Power, Kevin (who penned the final book) and Gary have reached new heights with regards to bushranging history, telling for the first time, what appears to be the complete history of this imported villain.  Never before has the subject of this manuscript been so thoroughly researched, compiled, and examined, by any other historian, and by using official documents from the archives these two young men have succeeded in exposing many errors relating to dates etc., as written by previous authors, who in all cases have only lightly passed over the Harry Power story as they fell over themselves in the rush to record the crimes of his apprentice Edward (Ned) Kelly.”