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"Crocodile
Safari Man"
All books personally signed - 318 pages
230 photos
Rags
to riches Autobiography of Keith Flexmore Adams:
Records family
life growing up on a farm at Bridport in
Tasmania during
the 1920’s, apprenticeship
in Launceston, working in New Guinea, hunting crocodiles in the Northern
Territory, Aborigines, Australian history and wildlife,
the making of Northern Safari and
the unusual experiences of screening it in Australia and around the world.
And finally the remarkable escapades from 50 separate
overland safaris to the Gulf
of Carpentaria.
It’s
the stuff pure adventure is made of.
Great Gift for Xmas and Birthdays.

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1.
My Dad's Life: A Soldier in the Boer War & WW1
2. The digging of the Barnbougle Canal in 1920 |
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Part
Two
1929 - 1953
From Childhood in Rural Tasmania to Marriage in Perth |
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3. Down
on the Farm in the Great Depression
4. Living off the Land in the 1930's
5. Guns, Spears, Flounder and Lobsters
6. Listening to WW2 on the Wireless
7. Apprentice Mechanic in Launceston and Ben Lomond
8. Motor Bikes, Girls, Dances and Brother Ted
9. North to Crocodile Country - New Guineau & Northern Territory
10. Building Cranes and Marrying Audrey in Perth 1951 - 1953 |
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Part
Three
1955
The First Safari through the Western Desert to the Northern Territory
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11.
A Tragic Encounter in the Gibson Desert 1955
12. Through the Hull River, Past Ayers Rock and on to Anthony's Lagoon
13. The Harpoon Gun and the Monster Crocodile
14. Hunting with Aborigines in the Sir Edward Pellew Islands
15. Borroloola and Simon's Dugong
16. Overland with the Buick, from Borroloola to Broome & Perth. 1955
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Part
Four
1956 - 1967
Making
the Film, Northern Safari |
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17.
Splicing and Editing the Film, Northern Safari
18. First reports in the West Australian Newspapers
19. Success and Controvesy in Adelaide and Melbourne
20. The Mildew and the Sinking Floor in Sydney in 1967
21. Controversy and Fame - The Newspaper Reviews 1967
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Part
Five
1968 - 1980
On
International Tour with
Northern Safari |
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22.
The Doubting Thomas of a Bank Manager in Los Angeles in 1968
23. Union - Trouble in San Francisco and a Smashing Success in Canada
24. A Rip-Roaring Success in Provincial England
25. The End of our Gallant Buick. Screening Northern Sagari in Germany
26. Overheated Projectors, Africaaner Bouncers, Lionesses, Elephants
and Screening in South Africa and Rhodesia
27. A Charge of Reckless driving in Perth
28. Screening in New Zealand and Climbing the Ngaurahoe Volcano 1973
- 74
29. Back to Borroloola with Joanne and Clinton in 1975
30. With Tom Stokes, Barry Holmes & Brian Northeast in Borroloola in
1977
31.
Screening Northern Safari in Tasmania
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Part Six
1980 - 2003
A
Fifty Year Tradition of Making the Safari to the Gulf of Carpentaria |
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32. Taking
Clinton the Surfy to Borrolooa, 1980 - 1981
33. Final Screenings and End of the Road for The World's First
Flipping Colossal Home Movie Show, 1981 - 1985
34. The Man Eating Crocodile of Borroloola
35. One Last Test for Northern Safari and the Sinking of my Boat 1993
- 2003
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