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Difficult circumstances in the wake of his father’s death caused Michael Tatlow to leave school aged fifteen in his native Tasmania, Australia. He earned a living trapping rabbits, snaring kangaroos, and fishing for shark in the Southern Ocean. He was also the state’s surf swimming champion. In rough seas at different beaches Michael saved alone four people from drowning.

Aged eighteen he became an Australian newspaper reporter, then a journalist correspondent in Britain, the United States, Canada, Vietnam and much of Europe. A year as a feature writer for Sydney’s Sunday Telegraph followed.

Aged twenty, a busted and infected spine cost him a year in hospital, during which time Michael twice received the last rites from a priest. Fully recovered, he became the Sunday Telegraph’s News Editor and Acting Editor, then the Chief of Staff and Pictorial Editor of the city’s Daily Telegraph.

Back home in Tasmania in the 1970s, Michael was head of ABC television news and, rated as an historian, he began writing books. It was then that he became a leading network marketer whose sales trips included months in the Czech Republic.

He lives in Hobart and has a son and daughter, and six grandchildren.

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Michael is the author of the books Bloodhouse (with Darcy Dugan), A Walk in Old Sydney, A Tour of Old Tasmania, A Walk in Old Launceston, A Walk in Old Hobart.