Crocodiles and Other People by Douglas Lockwood

Crocodiles and Other People

by Douglas Lockwood

Rigby, 1966, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping, tears and creasing (see photographs)

“As Darwin correspondent of the Melbourne Herald, Douglas Lockwood has covered many strange and wonderful tales throughout the sparsely populated half-million square miles of Australia’s Northern Territory.  In doing so he has learnt the techniques of trapping wild horses, of cattle-duffing, and of buffalo shooting, and has experienced the dangers and exhaustion of crocodile-hunting.
It is not surprising that one of his stories won the London Evening News £1,250 prize for “The World’s Strangest Story”.  It is difficult to choose which was the prize-winner among the many strange stories here – aboriginal corroborees, Japanese pearl-divers, droving, uranium mining, how a wallaby shot a man, the crocodile who lived in the Commercial Bank…
His tales range from the macabre to the humorous, his people from the fantastic to the lovable.
Crocodiles and Other People presents a colourful, exciting, and authentic picture of life in the Northern Territory”