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Haurongo: Crump, Barry

Wrestling a croc

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Wrestling a croc

In the early 1960s Crump and Jean Watson spent some time living in North Queensland, where they hunted crocodiles and sold the skins to make a living. It was a dangerous, rugged way of life but Crump relished it, later capturing the essence of the period and place in his novel Gulf(1964).

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Reference: Barry Crump: a tribute to Crumpy, 1935-1996. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1996, pg. 41

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Brigid Magner. 'Crump, Barry', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2011, whakahou November 2012. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34497/wrestling-a-croc (accessed 4 June 2026).