Try Anything Once (book)

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.

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."

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

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