More than 50 years after abandoning Sydney to pit himself against the wilderness of far north Queensland, the one-time student of Shore School - now 80 - has become a living frontier legend. Celebrated in books, plays, songs, documentaries and countless articles, he is revered by Aborigines, studied by schoolchildren, pursued by would-be biographers and admired by ordinary Australians from the shrinking wilds of Cape York all the way south to the cyclone-belt sugar towns of Innisfail and Tully.
