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Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

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April 1986, no. 79

Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

George Allen and Unwin Australia, 200pp, illus., $24.95hb

Lasseter: The making of a legend by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

by
April 1986, no. 79

The legend of Lasseter’s Reef is a strand of Australian folklore that has been transformed from its original oral state largely through the fascination of the mass media with the events of 1930–31, and with lost treasure tales in general. A number of books, newspapers, and magazine articles, together with some fiction and documentary films have been produced on the Lasseter story. In fact it was the 1956 Hollywood ‘B’ movie, Green Fire, (about fabled treasure in South America) that first sparked Billy Marshall-Stoneking’s long interest in Lasseter.

Graham Seal reviews 'Lasseter: The making of a legend' by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

Lasseter: The making of a legend

by Billy Marshall-Stoneking

George Allen and Unwin Australia, 200pp, illus., $24.95hb

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