Try Anything Once (book)

{{Short description|1933 Australian autobiography by Frank Clune}}

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Try Anything Once: The Autobiography of a Wanderer is a 1933 Australian autobiography by Frank Clune. It was his first published book and sold well, launching his career. He followed it with a series of similar travel books.Julian Croft, 'Clune, Francis Patrick (Frank) (1893–1971)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clune-francis-patrick-frank-9769/text17263, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 26 March 2024.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58624298 |title=THE FRANK AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A WANDERER |newspaper=The Mail (Adelaide) |volume=22 |issue=1,100 |location=South Australia |date=24 June 1933 |accessdate=26 March 2024 |page=4 (Magazine Section) |via=National Library of Australia}}

The Bulletin said "It supplies a pitilessly realistic picture of a human pest; one who is restless, inquisitive, in love with life, interested in everything, the bane of all in authority; a dry humorist, as senselessly malignant as a child, as quick-thinking as a good criminal defender, as combative and courageous as a bull-ant."{{Citation

| title=Portrait of a Rebel

| journal=The Bulletin

| date=12 July 1933

| location=Sydney, N.S.W

| publisher=John Haynes and J.F. Archibald

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-610805809

| id=nla.obj-610805809

| access-date=26 March 2024

| via=Trove

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Clune later had a show on ABC radio in 1939 called Try Anything Once.{{Citation

| title=Adventure And Travel Talks

| journal=The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal

| date=4 October 1939

| location=Sydney

| publisher=Wireless Press

| url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-726351263

| id=nla.obj-726351263

| access-date=26 March 2024

| via=Trove

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