Ned Kelly: Australian Son: Max BrownOriginally published in 1948, Ned Kelly: Australian Son was the first modern account of the Kelly outbreak. A bold and intriguing account of the man known to some Australians as a black hearted murderer and to others as the father of our national courage. Against the vivid background of Victoria in the last half of the 19th century, Brown's squatters, police troopers, occasional English gentlefolks and Irish Australian settlers play out their dramas