Captain Bully Hayes
1970 book by Frank Clune
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Captain Bully Hayes: Blackbirder And Bigamist is a 1970 Australian book by Frank Clune about Bully Hayes. It has been called "Perhaps the most reliable account of the life of Bully Hayes."[1][2][3]
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| Author | Frank Clune |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Bully Hayes |
| Genre | biography |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1970 |
| Publication place | Australia |
Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series Scallywags of the Pacific.[4] He also wrote about him in his 1938 book Free and Easy Land.[5]
Clune worked on the book in 1969. "The trouble is to separate fact and fiction," he said.[6]
Reception
Pacific Island Monthly said "It’s a very readable and useful compilation, and it does put the story of Hayes into clearer and truer focus than anything hitherto published... As put together by Clune, from a mass of often contradictory material, this history of Bully Hayes is readable, lively and colourful."[7]
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "lively reading, full of action."[8]