Tomkies, Mike
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Birth Date
- 1928-05-25
Death Date
- 2016-10-06
Birth Place
- West Bridgford (England)
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- English
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(naf) Nature writers
(naf) Journalists
(naf) Biographers
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- found: His Duke: the story of John Wayne, 1971.
- found: Scotsman WWW site, viewed Oct. 21, 2016(Mike Tomkies, wildlife writer and campaigner, former guardsman and freelance journalist; born West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, 25 May, 1928; died Henfield, West Sussex, 6 October, 2016; for the last 50 of his 88 years he championed nature's cause through an uncompromising series of books set in some of the wildest terrain of Canada and Spain, but most memorably, in the West Highlands of Scotland; he was first of all a soldier in the Coldstream Guards, serving in the Middle East and then at Buckingham Palace; became a newspaper journalist, firstly in and around London, then in Paris and Madrid, and then in Hollywood where he wrote about and sometimes befriended a whole galaxy of movie stars; his first two books were about Robert Mitchum and John Wayne)
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- 1980-04-14: new
- 2023-08-29: revised
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