| Captain Bully Hayes | |
| Author: | Frank Clune |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Bully Hayes |
| Genre: | biography |
| Publisher: | Angus and Robertson |
| Pub Date: | 1970 |
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]
Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series Scallywags of the Pacific.[3] He also wrote about him in his 1938 book Free and Easy Land.[4]
Clune worked on the book in 1969. "The trouble is to separate fact and fiction," he said.[5]
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."
The Sydney Morning Herald called it "lively reading, full of action."[6]