Full name: The Young Errol: Flynn Before Hollywood

Author: John Hammond Moore Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Google Books ISBNs: 9781426972027 1426972024

A fascinating account of the early life of one of Australia's most colorful and controversial sons. John Hammond Moore trace film star Errol Flynn's turbulent career from his birth in sedate Hobart through his eccentric schooldays and his youth in Sydney and cruising the Pacific to his years as a pioneer tobacco planter in Papua and the discovery that led to Hollywood and stardom. The author comments: "While his golden age in Hollywood produced wondrous swashbuckling, Errol Flynn was not really acting at all. He was merely transferring a natural style developed in Sydney, Port Moresby, Rabaul, and London to a much larger audience." Anecdotes, quotations from Flynn's own diaries and from people who knew him in Australia and Papua New Guinea crowd one upon the other to underscore this truth, and to embellish this rollicking tale of a man who in the author's words: "lived for half a century the sort of life adolescents dream of but men dare not attempt." Similar books: There's More to Life Than This by Theresa Caputo The Duck Commander Family by Willie Robertson To Selena, with Love by Chris Perez The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle by Michael J. Mooney The Women of Duck Commander by Kay Robertson A Lion's Tale by Chris Jericho Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert Shadow of the Almighty by Elisabeth Elliot Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh Coco Chanel by Megan Hess The Audrey Hepburn Treasures by Ellen Erwin H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Beyond the Robot by Gary Lachman A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins Stuart by Alexander Masters A Tragic Honesty by Blake Bailey Smiling in Slow Motion by Derek Jarman The Book of Joe by Jeff Wilser