The Last Showman

The life and times of an Outback tent-boxing legend

Fred Brophy, Sue Williams

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English

Penguin
01 February 2016

Autobiography: general; Biography - Australian

Fred tells stories of living on the smell of an oily rag, rescuing battlers, and becoming embroiled in some of the most bizarre adventures imaginable. This is one helluva life, full of hardship, hilarity and unexpected turns, including Fred being inducted into the Queensland Boxing Hall of Fame and receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia.

'My life has been a mad travelling show, meeting some of the

strangest and greatest people who've ever lived.

I've had my fair share

of trouble and I'm lucky to be here. But I've always been a showman and

I've done my best to preserve a precious part of an old Australia

that's fast disappearing.'

Son of a sideshow operator and

trapeze artist, fourth-generation showman Fred Brophy grew up on the

road, travelling the length and breadth of Australia. He did time in

jail as a wild teenager before establishing his own successful boxing

tent. It has become a star attraction in the Outback and is now the only

one of its kind in the world.

Fred tells stories of living on

the smell of an oily rag, rescuing battlers, and becoming embroiled in

some of the most bizarre adventures imaginable. This is one helluva

life, full of hardship, hilarity and unexpected turns, including Fred

being inducted into the Queensland Boxing Hall of Fame and receiving a

Medal of the Order of Australia.

'Now ladies and gentlemen, let's go inside. The show's about to begin . . .'

'One of the wildest, funniest, most extraordinary Australian autobiographies you could ever squeeze into 300 pages.' R.M. Williams Outback Magazine

By: Fred Brophy
With: Sue Williams
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780143572862
ISBN 10: 0143572865
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 February 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Fred Brophy is an Australian icon. He's a fourth generation showman who still operates his boxing tent - the last of its kind in the world. He makes an annual appearance at Birdsville Races where the tent is a major drawcard. He was admitted into the QLD Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010, and was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 2011 for services to charity and to the entertainment industry in keeping old-style tent boxing alive. Fred is now sixty and lives in his pub at Kilkivan, Queensland, with his partner, Sandi. He also has a pub in Cracow. A major two-part documentary about his boxing tent, Outback Fight Club, shows regularly on Qantas flights domestically and all over the world and every time he travels overseas, he invariably meets locals who've heard of him.