A selection of crocodile and other Australian Animal books written by mostly Australian authors are
available.
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Crocodile Men
Edition 1st
ISBN
Author: Bryan Peach
Published by Universal Enterprises Pty Ltd
Format Hardcover ($55)
Ebook: www.crocodilemen.com.au ($11.99)
Weight: 1.5 kilos
Other details:
320 pages with some 160 historical photograghs, cartoons and drawings A book for all ages and a factual account of the crocodile hunters of Australia. |
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Synopsis:
Man's two basic instincts are to mate, and to hunt. The need to provide food has been man's eeriest occupation where he was first a gatherer, and then with sharpened sticks and stone tools, he became not only a gatherer of food, but also a hunter.
Until the coming of white man, larger crocodiles remained untouched and their only enemies would be other large crocodiles protecting their territory and their females during the mating season. With white settlement came cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and dogs, all of which were to become prey to these large and voracious reptiles.
I'm Bryan Peach, the author of Crocodile Men. My purpose in writing Crocodile Men was to record a moment in history; the lives and adventures of the crocodile hunters in Australia from 1945 until 1972 when the crocodiles became protected by the Government of the day.
This was an era in Australian history that in all probability, will never happen again; and since many of the hunters are of an age now that their stories could be lost forever unless they are recorded for perpetuity.
Crocodile Men is an exciting story of those who engaged in an occupation of adventure and danger to become the few to be called 'crocodile hunter'.
Crocodile Men is available for purchase, along with 5 other exciting hunting titles from other authors. "Henry let out a bellow as he woke with the huge croc leaning over him. The smell of its foul breath had aroused him from a deep sleep.." |
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Crocodile Attack in Australia
Edition 2002
ISBN 9780646360041
Author: Hugh Edwards
Published by J B Books Pty Ltd
Format soft cover
Weight: 502 Gramm
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240 pages has many interesting B/W photos. 150 mm wide by 235mm high by 19mm thick
Synopsis:
Years before man invented the death dealing submarine , crocodiles perfected the art of capturing large prey from concealment beneath the waters. A large crocodile can make himself invisible in knee deep muddy water. He can remain below a hour , without a bubble or a ripple to indicate his presence. His heart slowed to an incredible single beat every three minutes. No movement will betray him, for crocodiles are masters of stillness. |
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He will remain as immobile as a stone until the right moment. Meantime his acute senses register each foot- fall on the bank, every splash in the water. When the time comes to attack, the crocodile explodes from below the surface in a whirl of teeth and spray, yellow eyes ablaze, moving faster than the human eye can follow. If need be, he can jump and stretch to take prey two metres above the surface. He is rapid enough to catch a bird on the wing, striking as quickly as those other reptilian hunters, the snakes. Hugh Edwards has brilliantly documented the crocodile attacks in Australia and it is a book that all people interested in reptiles should read.
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Paradise Found - A Cape York Adventure
19.59
Edition 2007
ISBN 0646413813
Author: Linda Rowe
Published by Linda Rowe in Cooktown, Australia
Format soft cover
Other details:
Some 120 pages has quite a few drawings and coloured photos. 170mm wide 240mm high by 9mm thick.
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Synopsis:
This is a modern day adventure story full of excitement and exploration. Travel with Linda and Ken as they explore a Cape York wilderness that not many people see. Read about close encounters with crocodiles, man-eating snakes and just about every disaster imaginable as they go off the beaten track and into the untouched areas of this last great frontier. Live with them at their bush shop and experience happenings that are so bizarre they are nearly unbelievable. It is truly a book where truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Linda Rowe, Author, and proprietor of the Croc Shop Cooktown has an ongoing fascination with the history and ecology of Cape York Peninsular. Her love of nature and the wilderness is interestingly displayed in this factual story. |
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Hell West and Crooked
24.95
Edition 3/05/1995
ISBN 9780207189845
Author: Tom Cole
Format soft cover
Other details:
Size 206 x 152 x 20 mm
Synopsis:
 Tom Cole's autobiographical account of his adventures from 1920's and 1930's as a drover, station hand, buffalo shooter and crocodile hunter in Queensland and the Northern Territory of Australia. A picture of the life and times of a true adventurer!
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Tom left the gentle country of Kent, at age 17 years, for adventure and to escape the winter cold of England. After an eventful voyage on an Orient line ship, the RMS ORMUZ, he arrived at Brisbane and promptly lined up a job on a remote cattle property in the Maranoa District. He found horse riding to his liking and in his spare time shot rabbits and kangaroos. After some time he travelled on to the Northern Territory and took up a job on Lake Nash cattle station. He quickly adapted to the routine of station life and went droving with a thousand and more bullocks in one mob, over a hundred miles, sleeping on the ground every night and taking his turn in riding round the cattle in the still and silent watches of the night.
His experiences, which are recounted with great humour and drama, were many and varied - the Overland Telegraph Line; the packhorse mails; the bush race meetings; horse-breaking; buffalo and crocodile hunting. He pays tribute to the many Aborigines with whom he worked and got to know so well, admiring their amazing endurance in that harsh unforgiving environment and learning some of their bushmanship. |
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