The first book by prominent Melbourne Herald journalist Douglas Lockwood -Crocodiles and Other People -published by Cassell , 1959 , is about to be republished in an updated version by Westprint Lockwood , a Nhill , Victoria , based outback retailer and Kim Lockwood , the author's son. The end of each chapter carries information on what happened to the people mentioned within . It will be published in a quarter leather bound edition and also a soft quality version to suit book lovers with different pockets. Our copy , above , published by Rigby , 1963, the dust jacket designed by Gloria Brown .
Depending on the success of this launch , Kim says most of the other popular books his father wrote may also be published. Kim points out that Doug's Australia's Pearl Harbour , mentioned recently in this blog in connection with the looming 75th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese , is still selling moderately well under the title Australia Under Attack , published by New Holland , which also produces I, the Aboriginal .
Lockwood was in Darwin the day of the Japanese attack and while based there he travelled far and wide in the Northern Territory , just one of his excellent stories winning the London Evening News 1250 pound prize for the World's Strangest Story .
