Angus & Robertson, Australia, Date: 1975. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 154 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1975. First Edition. First softcover edition. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate rubbing/wear. Edges of covers have moderate wear. Spine has moderate reading creases. . Edges of pages are reasonably browned. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A fascinating account of the early life of one of Australia's most colorful and controversial sons. John Hammond Moore trace film star Errol Flynn's turbulent career from his birth in sedate Hobart through his eccentric schooldays and his youth in Sydney and cruising the Pacific to his years as a pioneer tobacco planter in Papua and the discovery that led to Hollywood and stardom. The author comments: 'While his golden age in Hollywood produced wondrous swashbuckling, Errol Flynn was not really acting at all. He was merely transferring a natural style developed in Sydney, Port Moresby, Rabaul, and London to a much larger audience. Anecdotes, quotations from Flynn's own diaries and from people who knew him in Australia and Papua New Guinea crowd one upon the other to underscore this truth, and to embellish this rollicking tale of a man who in the author's words: 'lived for half a century the sort of life adolescents dream of but men dare not attempt. This a very scarce copy of the first pr ...