Plevna: A Biography in Verse

by Geoff Page

Why have we no biography, three hundred pages, dense with footnotes, boasting your achievements? He was a Melbourne surgeon. He worked for the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War. He was the oldest man at Gallipoli, and took illegal photographs during a nine-hour truce. He repaired Ned Kelly after the Siege of Glenrowan. He cut quite a figure in "Marvellous Melbourne" of the 1880s and 90s. He did remarkable things. He wrote it all down. In this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742588204
• ISBN13: 9781742588209
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"