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Title:	GULF
Author(s):	CRUMP , Barry
Illustrated By:	MAHONY, Will
Category:	New Zealand - Literature
New / Used:	Used
Book Type:	Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published:	1964
Published By:	AW & AH Reed
Edition:	1st edition
Pages:	172
Size (mm):	140 w x 225 h x 20 d

Condition

Immaculate with only light wear/marks on dust jacket, small piece cut from end paper, otherwise clean and unmarked. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

Signed by the author.

Famous New Zealander Barry Crump tells 12 stories about Crocodile shooting set in Queensland, Australia.

"Crump kept Sam Cash as the central character in One of Us (1962) and There and Back (1963), after which he spent two years in northern Australia, crocodile-hunting in the Gulf of Carpentaria and sailing off the north Queensland coast. The book that resulted (Gulf, 1964, later titled Crocodile Country) sold 100,000 copies.

Illustrated with monochrome line drawings.

About the Author
Barry Crump MBE (1935-1996) was a New Zealand author and titan of New Zealand writing, who based his of semi-autobiographical comic novels on his image as a rugged outdoors man. Taken together his novels have sold more than a million copies domestically, equating to one book sold for every four New Zealanders. Born in Papatoetoe, Auckland, Crump worked for many years as a government deer-culler in areas of New Zealand native forest (termed bush). He collected his experiences in his first novel A Good Keen Man in 1960. This novel became one of the most popular in New Zealand history, and Crump's success continued with the more fictional Hang on a Minute Mate (1961), One of Us (1962), There and Back (1963), Gulf (1964), A Good Keen Girl (1970), Bastards I Have Met ( Graham Kirk ) (1971), and others, which capitalized on the appeal of his good-natured itinerant self-sufficient characters and idiomatic "blokey" writing style. Through the 1980s and early 1990s Crump's rugged outdoors man reputation carried through with him becoming the legendary front man for Toyota New Zeland and their popular series of TV adverts for Toyota Hilux utes. Crump travelled throughout Australia (where he hunted crocodiles), Europe, Turkey, and India, the result of which was his conversion to the Bah Faith by 1982. He married five times, including a one-year marriage to the poet Fleur Adcock and a longer marriage to Robin Lee-Robinson, and had nine sons and no daughters.

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