y separately published work icon The Last Paradise single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Last Paradise
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'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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  • Sequel to Hell West and Crooked.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Angus and Robertson , 1993 .
      Extent: 241 p., [24] p. of platesp.
      Description: ill., ports.
      ISBN: 0207178763 (pbk.) :
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y separately published work icon Hell West and Crooked : A Living Legend, a Real-Life Crocodile Dundee Tom Cole , Sydney : Collins , 1988 Z1922348 1988 single work autobiography '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)
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Subjects:
  • Northern Territory,
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    Papua New Guinea,
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    Pacific Region,
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