The horses are hell west and crooked it'll take a week to muster them.'
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.
'A real-life story of the pioneering days of the Top End that out-adventures anything fiction writers could hope to produce.' THE WEST AUSTRALIAN
'Tom Cole is a living legend, a real-life Crocodile Dundee. His stories paint a vivid picture of wild and exciting times in the Australian Outback.'
MELBOURNE SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A story of the outback and cattlemen and women, stripped of glamour, that will become an Australian classic to rub covers with authors like Ion Idriess.'
