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y separately published work icon Hell West and Crooked : A Living Legend, a Real-Life Crocodile Dundee single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Hell West and Crooked : A Living Legend, a Real-Life Crocodile Dundee
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'Hell West and Crooked is the autobiographical account of a young Englishman's life in the Outback during the 1920s and 1930s, from his days as a drover and stationhand in the toughest country in Australia to his experiences as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory before the war.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Collins , 1988 .
      person or book cover
      Extent: 356 p., [16] p. of platesp.
      Description: ill., maps, ports
      Note/s:
      • "This publication was commissioned by the Northern Territory Council of the Australian Bicentennial Authority to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary in 1988"--T.p. verso.
      ISBN: 0732224039
    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Cornstalk Publishing , 1994 .
      Extent: 356p.
      Description: ill., ports., maps
      ISBN: 0207187037
    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2013 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 August 2013
      ISBN: 9780732297312, 0732297311
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y separately published work icon The Last Paradise Tom Cole , Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z1922352 1993 single work autobiography 'Tom Cole hunted crocodiles and buffalo, was a horse-breaker, brumby runner and drover, owned and managed cattle stations and a coffee plantation.

The Last Paradise is the sequel to Tom Cole′s bestselling autobiography Hell West and Crooked and recounts his story of thirty years in New Guinea amongst "crocodiles, cannibals and coffee".

Operating as the first professional crocodile shooter in New Guinea, Tom Cole risked life and limb hunting from frail canoes in wild and sometimes unexplored country, working with everyone from cannibals to missionaries to government officials, and the larger-than-life characters still drifting around the Pacific after the war.' (Publisher's blurb)
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— Appears in: NT News , 23 January 2016; (p. 20) NT News , 29 January 2016; (p. 34)
Books That Changed Me : Neil Jenman Neil Jenman , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 3 March 2013; (p. 14) The Sunday Age , 3 March 2013; (p. 14)
Books That Changed Me : Neil Jenman Neil Jenman , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 3 March 2013; (p. 14) The Sunday Age , 3 March 2013; (p. 14)
Let's See These Yarns up on the Big Screen Katina Vangopoulos , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: NT News , 23 January 2016; (p. 20) NT News , 29 January 2016; (p. 34)
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Subjects:
  • Northern Territory,
  • 1920-1939
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