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TWO TOM COLE PUBLICATIONS: HELL WEST AND CROOKED + THE LAST PARADISE

BOOK 1

A&R Classic Edition

HELL WEST AND CROOKED – TOM COLE

ISBN: 0 207 18984 6

Copyright © The estate of the late Tom Cole 1988

Published by: Angus & Robertson, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, Australia

Printed in Australia by: Griffin Paperbacks, Adelaide

Format: glossy pictorial soft cover

Total print-bearing Pages: estimated 361 pages in total (preliminary section: 2 unnumbered pages) + (356 numbered pages [text] + 4 unnumbered pages [maps] + 1 unnumpage – synopsis The Last Paradise)

Size: approx. 12.7cm x 19.9cm x 2.1cm

Mass: approx. 300 g

Special Attributes: First published in 1988 by Collins Publishers; reprinted in 1988 (six times), 1989 (twice); A & R Imprint edition first published 1990; reprinted 1990, 1991, 1992 (twice) 1993, 1995 (twice); stated this A&R Classic edition first published 1995; reprinted 1997; commissioned as part of Australian Bicentenary; glossy pictorial stiffened/ plasticized softcover; glued binding; textbody comprises off-white (‘unbleached’)/ quality thick, slightly translucent papers; comprises 24 chapters; 2 black and white (glossy) photographic plate inserts; photographic captions generally comprise extensive text – provide additional information/ author's comments; 4 maps (3 maps NT/ NT detail; 1 WA)

Marked (backcover) as BIOGRAPHY

Condition : Used (generally good condition – very good condition textbody); localised cover wear; 2 vertical lines of superficial creasing of spine surrface; appears little read; slightly oversized cover (cover edges project slightly beyond textbody); 2 lines of discontinuity (=ridges) lateral free leaf edges = leaves of photographic plate inserts; minor discolouration (age tanning) free leaf edges; discolouration all of textbody due to [1] use of off-white (‘unbleached’) papers [2] age tanning discolouration – primarily peripheral (primarily upper page margin area); minor turning upper and lower free leaf corners first and last leaves (associated with cover wear); minor indentation (imprint pencilled reseller notations – now erased) flyleaf; minor cover wear/ creasing/ folding indentation; numerous superficial holding/ creasing (crescent indentations = fingertip impression) noticed frontcover; 2 lines of oblique folding creasing lower free corner area fronrcover; oblique line of (minor) localised loss of glossy finish transecting lower third of backcover; 2 lines of oblique folding lower backcover/ lower free corner area – associated with inadvertent folding/ creasing lower free corner last 2 leaves; general rubbing wear front and backcover with [1] reduction in gloosy finish – primarily backcover [2] superficial scoring due to contact with grit or similar – primarily backcover; rubbing wear top and bottom of spine with localised vertical wrinkling of printlayer – primarily bottom of spine; rubbing wear with localised indentation of cover edges – primarily frontcover; minor vertical creasing at fold (junction of front spine margin and frontcover); localised oblique creasing/ folding/indentation [1] upper and lower free corner apices frontcover [2] upper free corner apex backtcover; tight binding

Text: appears little read; slightly oversized cover (cover edges project slightly beyond textbody); 2 lines of discontinuity (=ridges) lateral free leaf edges = leaves of photographic plate inserts; minor discolouration (age tanning) free leaf edges; discolouration all of textbody due to [1] use of off-white (‘unbleached’) papers [2] age tanning discolouration – primarily peripheral (primarily upper page margin area); minor turning upper and lower free leaf corners first and last leaves (associated with cover wear); minor indentation (imprint pencilled reseller notations – now erased) flyleaf; inadvertent folding/ creasing lower free corner last 2 leaves (associated with cover wear) – textbody is otherwise sound and clean, free of previous owner underlining and highlighting, and no further annotation /inscription of any kind noticed

Cover: uncreased spine; minor cover wear/ creasing/ folding indentation; 2 vertical lines of superficial creasing of spine surrface; numerous superficial holding/ creasing (crescent indentations = fingertip impression) noticed frontcover; 2 lines of oblique folding creasing lower free corner area fronrcover; oblique line of (minor) localised loss of glossy finish transecting lower third of backcover; 2 lines of oblique folding lower backcover/ lower free corner area; general rubbing wear front and backcover with [1] reduction in glossy finish – primarily backcover [2] superficial scoring due to contact with grit or similar – primarily backcover; rubbing wear top and bottom of spine with localised vertical wrinkling of printlayer – primarily bottom of spine; rubbing wear with localised indentation of cover edges – primarily frontcover; minor vertical creasing at fold (junction of front spine margin and frontcover); localised oblique creasing/ folding/indentation [1] upper and lower free corner apices frontcover [2] upper free corner apex backtcover; tight binding

Description: Primarily biographical. Deals with the author's experiences in Northern Australia after migrating from England at age seventeen in response to "posters beckoning young empire builders" in 1923, until 1939 (the outbreak of WWII).

According to the backcover, “"In this remarkable autobiographical account, 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 stationhand in the toughest country in Australia and later on as a buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in the Northern Territory before the war. Tom Cole was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 1994 for his contribution to history. First published in 1988, "Hell West and Crooked" has now sold over 100   000 copies.

An extract of a review attributed to the ‘Melbourne Sunday Press' given on the backcover states “Tom Cole is a living legend, a real life 'Crocodile Dundee'. His stories paint a vivid picture of a wild and exciting times in the Australia. outback. ”

According to the publishers' note, “Tom Cole was born in England in 1906 and came to Australia as a seventeen-year-old. He went straight to the bush, droving, horsebreaking and working as a stockman in Queensland and the Northern Territory, as well as a brief period as a linesman on the overland telegraph line. Then he went buffalo shooting. He describes himself as the only buffalo hunter alive who was an active horseback hunter, broke his own shooting horses, held five hundred square miles of country and employed tribal Aborigines as assistants. During these years before the war, crocodiles were a sideline . ....”

According to the introduction, “My experiences were many and varied: the Overland telegraph Line: the packhorse mails: the bush race meetings; horse-breaking; then buffalo and crocodile hunting. In this book I recount not only my own experiences but also those of other men with whom I worked and respected – the pioneers such as Nat Buchanan, whose names and exploits were still fresh in men's memories. This would not be complete without a tribute to the many Aborigines with whom I worked and got to know so well. Their amazing endurance in that harsh unforgiving environment, their bushmanship and incredible tracking and hunting abilities, their uncanny skill with their primitive spears and boomerangs, never ceased to amaze me .”

According to the definition for “ "Hell west and crooked": A cattleman's expression meaning all over the place. "The hordes are hell west and crooked – it'll take a week to muster them." ”

A reader review on a US (A.xxx.com) internet website states, in part, “Not So Long Ago...: Tom Cole reveals the Northern Territory of Australia in all its untamed and raw delights. Amazingly we had barely encroached on this area just 50 years ago, a fact he bears witness to. He passed away just a few years ago, but left us several good books before he departed. This one relates the story of his life as a stockman (cowboy) and croc hunter, of the people & cattle stations which began to spread across the territory, and attests to the difficulty in establishing their viability. ”

A reader review on a US (A.xxx.com) internet website states, in part, “Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole: … This book is part biography, part adventure, and part history. Tom Cole was the real deal, a son of the great Australian Outback, and a keen observer of what it was like to live in the Northern Territory of Australia in the 1920's and 1930's. It is an easy and entertaining journal of this young man's life in those wild times. He was a stockmen, horse breaker, consummate horseman, buffalo hunter, and crocodile hunter long before Mick Dundee. Tom Cole's writing style vividly presents what it was like to live on the frontier of a still sparsely populated land even today. ”

According to review on the goodreads.com internet website, “My favourite Australian non-fiction book. This is at its heart the story of an English boy who found his place in the world in the desolate outback of Australia. Cole is often billed as the real life crocodile Dundee and there's plenty (dare I say too much) crocodile hunting in this book but it's his times as a cattle drover and buffalo hunter which I enjoyed the most. Understatement is the great Australian art and this is one of its masterpieces. ”

Contains 33 black and white photographs; 4 maps

Contents:

extract of review on frontcover

publishers' note on author

technical notes/ publication details

dedication

definition (explanation of title)

table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

1. FROM SUITCASE TO SWAG

2. LAKE NASH, NORTHERN TERRITORY

3. LIFE ON A CATTLE STATION

4. THE LAWS OF DROVING

5. DROVING FROM STRATHFIELD TO GLENORMISTON

6. MUSTERING ON A KIDMAN STATION

7. STOCK CAMP COOK AT BRUNETTE DOWNS

8. BANKA BANKA AND BARROW CREEK RACES

9. HEAD STOCKMAN AT WAVE HILL FOR VESTEYS

10. TELEGRAPH LINES AND CAMELS

11. TRAGEDIES IN THE OUTBACK

12. OUTSTATIONS OF VICTORIA DOWNS

13. DANGERS OF THE BRONCO YARD

14. MANAGING BULLITA STATION

15. BRUMBY RUNNING AT HOOKER'S CREEK

16. THE BREAKER FROM THE TERRITORY

17. BROCK'S CREEK RACES

18. THE PACK-HORSE MAIL TO LIMBUNYA

19. BUFFALO SHOOTING ON THE COASTAL PLAINS

20. KAPALGA AND THE CALEDON BAY MASSACRE

21. ANOTHER SPEARING, AND MORE MISADVENTURES

22. PROSPECTING IN ARNHEM LAND

23. CROCODILE HUNTING WITH HARPOON AND GUN

24. TIME BELONG ...

Maps of the northern region

[The Northern Territory – The Canning Stock Route between Halls Creek and Wiluna – Leaseholdings in the buffalo country east of Darwin – Arnhem Land ]

publishers' note on book ( backcover )

4 review extracts cited on backcover

BOOK 2

THE LAST PARADISE – TOM COLE

SEQUEL TO HELL WEST AND CROOKED

A&R Classic paperback

ISBN: 0 09 207 19039 9

© Tom Cole 1990, 1993

Published by: Angus&Robertson – an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers , Australia

Printed in Australia by: Griffin Press Pty Ltd

Format: glossy pictorial soft cover

Pages: 241 numbered pages

Size: 12.8cm x 19.8cm x 1.6cm

Mass: approx. 310 g

Special Attributes: First published in 1990 by Random House Australia; A&R Imprint revised edition in 1993; A&R Classic paperback edition 1994; this A&R Classic paperback edition published in 1996; reprinted 1997; glossy pictorial softcover; glued binding; comprises quality/ semi translucent papers; contains 9 chapters; 3 black and white (4 leaf) photographic plate inserts; black and white illustrations (photographs; diagrams) – facsimile of letter; no index

Marked (backcover) BIOGRAPHY

Marked (adhesive retailer label – backcover) as $17.95

Condition: Used (generally good condition); textbody appears little read; numerous vertical lines of superficial creasing/ wrinkling of spine suirface; some loss of ‘squareness; minor indentations (imprint pencilled reseller notations – now erased flyleaf (half title page); minor curling upper and lower free corners first leaves (associated with cover wear); minor localised age tanning all of textbody – primarily [1] peripheral [2] upper page margin area; minor cover wear; minor oblique creasing upper free corner area frontcover; minor general rubbing with superficial scoring (contact with grit or similar); rubbing wear cover edges with’ridging’ of glossy layer lateral edge frontcover; adhesive reatiler price label – backcover (partially overlying barcode block); minor curling upper and lower free corners first leaves (associated with cover wear); oblique creasing/ indentation/ turning upper and lower free corners frontcover

Text: appears little read; minor indentations (imprint pencilled reseller notations – now erased flyleaf (half title page); minor culing upper and lower free corners first leaves (associated with cover wear); minor localised age tanning all of textbody – primarily [1] peripheral [2] upper page margin area textbody is otherwisesound, clean, free of previous owner underlining and highlighting, and no further annotation /inscription of any kind noticed

Cover: Numerous vertical lines of superficial creasing/ wrinkling of spine suirface; some loss of ‘squareness ; minor localisised age tanning all of textbody – primarily [1] peripheral [2] upper page margin area; minor cover wear; minor oblique creasing upper free corner area frontcover; minor general rubbing with superficial scoring (contact with grit or similar); rubbing wear cover edges with’ridging’ of glossy layer lateral edge frontcover; adhesive retailer price label – backcover (partially overlying barcode block); oblique creasing/ indentation/ turning upper and lower free corners frontcover

Description: Primarily autobiographical. Deals with his life after WWII – commences with his arrival in 1950 and covers the next 15 years (the sale of Sigri) or so – “an era that has gone forever: self-government and then independence overtook these people like a tidal wave. ”

According to the backcover, “Tom Cole has hunted crocodiles and buffalo, been 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 best-selling 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. Tom Cole, Australian legend, led a life like no other.

A review on a US (A.xxx.com) internet website, states, in part, “This well written book is the sequel to Tom Cole's best-selling autobiography Hell West and Crooked. ... In an unexplored country he operated as the first professional crocodile shooter. … After reading this book, we can understand that the Crocodile Dundee movies are nothing compared with Tom Cole's life. Based on the author's first-hand knowledge and experience you will get a good insight of real crocodile hunting. Another challenge there was the natives from over 800 tribes. They had many strange cultures, customs and rituals that the pioneers found hard to understand. Imagine meeting tribes as the Goaribaris, considered to be one of the cruellest in the entire Pacific. As Cole tells, their raids they showed no mercy whatever to man, woman or child. Nothing stopped Cole from hunting big man-eating crocodiles, and selling the skin. As he writes: 'crocodile skins were my life's blood'. The stories are so full of life, colour and adventure. Many unique photos are included and show crocodiles, tribes and a magnificent nature .”

An obituary on the pngaa.net internet website states, in part, “ Tom COLE, OAM (9 December 1995, aged 89) The real life "Crocodile Dundee" was famous as a Northern Territory crocodile hunter between the wars and in PNG after World War II. Tom rode the ranges of the Northern Territory, Queensland and Western Australia at a gallop after wild buffalo, was stockman, drover, horse-breaker, station owner and linesman on the Overland Telegraph, and then spent 30 years in PNG as a crocodile shooter and Highlands planter .”

He arrived in PNG in 1950, becoming the first professional crocodile shooter, for years operating in the Purari Delta. He trained local teams to work independently, and developed it into a substantial business, at one time being the only buyer and exporter of crocodile skins in PNG. In 1955 he was allocated 150 acres of land at Banz, established Sigri plantation in 1956 and settled down to coffee planting. He was a well known and colourful member of the postwar expatriate community. ”

Tom recorded his very active life in five books, the first, " Hell West and Crooked" becoming a classic, with more than 100,000 copies in various editions. He published two collections of true Australian outback yarns, " Spears and Smoke Signals" and " Crocodiles and Other Characters" , and a selection from his letters and his station diaries, " Riding the Wildman Plains" . His book about his years in PNG, " The Last Paradise" , has gone into two editions. It was a measure of Tom's drive that all his books appeared after he turned 80, because until then he was far too busy living his adventurous life to sit down and write about it.

Although it's as a writer that thousands of readers knew him, Tom didn't think of himself as an author. He took up the pen not for a new career but because he felt that history needed to be recorded. For his writing he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1993 for services to community history. … On 16 February [1996] there was a Memorial Service for Tom at the Darwin Botanic Gardens and a tree planted with a plaque in his memory. ”

Contains 45 black and white photographs; 3 diagrams; facsimile of letter (2 pages)

Contents:

publishers' note on author

other titles

publication details

table of CONTENTS

DEDICATION

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PROLOGUE

1. A CROC SKIN HANDBAG

2. 1000 BULLETS, PLEASE

3. RIFLES, SALT AND A BABY

4. ERROL FLYNN WAS HERE

5. MASSACRE MOST BLOODY

6. A LIVE VOLCANO OR TWO

7. BANZ COFFEE GROWER

8. SIGRI FAMILY

9. TOTAL ECLIPSE

publishers' note ( backcover )

BOOK1 + BOOK2

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  • Condition: Good
  • Condition: Both Books Used; Hell West and Crooked generally in good or better condition; The Last Paradise generally in good condition – refer to detailed description + photographs
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: HELL WEST AND CROOKED + THE LAST PARADISE
  • Author: TOM COLE

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