Captain Bully Hayes 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]

Captain Bully Hayes
AuthorFrank Clune
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBully Hayes
Genrebiography
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1970
Publication placeAustralia

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

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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]

References

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  1. ^ Miller, Simon (September 12, 2013). "Bully Hayes - Pacific pirate: truth or fiction?". State Library of Queensland.
  2. ^ "Advertising". The Canberra Times. Vol. 45, no. 12, 759. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 November 1970. p. 12. Retrieved 16 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "books The book season", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 28 November 1970, nla.obj-1462014745, retrieved 16 April 2024 – via Trove
  4. ^ "BLACKGUARD "BULLY" HAYES". Macleay Argus. No. 6858. New South Wales, Australia. 18 November 1938. p. 8. Retrieved 16 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ ""FREE AND EASY LAND"". The Newcastle Sun. No. 6542. New South Wales, Australia. 3 December 1938. p. 5. Retrieved 16 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "HIS 65TH AT 75". Now. No. 23. New South Wales, Australia. 10 September 1969. p. 2. Retrieved 16 April 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Book Reviews Just how much bully was there in Hayes?", Pacific Islands Monthly, [Sydney: Pacific Publications, 1 January 1971, nla.obj-337395266, retrieved 16 April 2024 – via Trove
  8. ^ "Rviews in brief". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 January 1971. p. 18.