''Captain Bully Hayes'' is a 1970 Australian book by

Frank Clune Francis Patrick Clune, OBE, (27 November 189311 March 1971) was a best-selling Australian writer, travel writer and popular historian. Early life and career Clune was born in Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney in 1893, and grew up in Re ...

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Bully Hayes William Henry "Bully" Hayes (1827 or 1829 – 31 March 1877) was a notorious American ship's captain who engaged in blackbirding in the 1860s and 1870s.James A. Michener & A. Grove Day, ''Bully Hayes, South Sea Buccaneer'', in ''Rascals in Parad ...

. It has been called "Perhaps the most reliable account of the life of Bully Hayes." Clune had written about Hayes in an episode of his 1938 radio series ''Scallywags of the Pacific''. He also wrote about him in his 1938 book ''Free and Easy Land''. Clune worked on the book in 1969. "The trouble is to separate fact and fiction," he said.

Reception

''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."

References

{{reflist 1970 books Australian non-fiction books Books by Frank Clune Australian biographies