AUSTRALIANA BIOGRAPHY

 Autobiographical account of a life spent as a drover, station hand, buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory during the 1920s and 1930s.

The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and drama, he recounts his adventures as a drover and stockman in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern territory before the war. First published in 1988 and having sold over 100 000 copies, Hell West and Crooked is perfect for anyone who enjoys a classic outback yarn. “A real-life story of the pioneering days of the Top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce.”  356 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 20 cm.  #0516/1020/0521R/310522/110922/230523/190823 (age tanning)

Cole, Tom, 1906-1995.  |  Stockmen — Northern Territory — Biography.  |  Hunters — Northern Territory — Biography.  |  Frontier and pioneer life — Northern Territory.  |  Hunting – Buffalo.  |  Occupations – Pastoral industry workers – Drovers / Stockmen.  |  Hunting – Crocodile.  |  Northern Territory (NT)