Riding the Wildman Plains: The Letters and Diaries of Tom Cole, 1923-1943

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to tail foredge. Some faint marks on top and right foredges. Dust jacket is in very good condition with only light creasing. Pages have started to sun. Dust jacket is now in protective cover. Interior and binding are still very good.

At seventeen, Tom Cole (1906-1995) left England, lured by the posters that beckoned young empire builders to the colonies. He arrived in a harsh, unyielding, alien land - Australia.

Twenty-five years later, Tom Cole was an outback legend. Famed as an expert horseman and a skilled crocodile and buffalo hunter, Tom lived a life most people only dream about. Thanks to Tom's mother in England, who kept all his letters and the diaries Tom wrote to keep track of the days, we have a unique and remarkable record of his day-to-day life.

Written with laconic, easygoing humour, the diaries and the letters bring to life outback Australia in the 1920s to 40s.

Illustrated with Tom's photographs, maps, and reproductions of his letters and diaries, Riding the Wildman Plains tells of a time and a breed of pioneering bushmen that will never be seen again. (book flap)