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    • Naturalist, writer and Hollywood film journalist

      • Mike Tomkies was an acclaimed naturalist, writer and Hollywood film journalist who lived for 35 years in remote and wild places in the Scottish Highlands, Canada and Spain. In 1988 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland. He wrote a number of best-selling nature books as well as a two-volume autobiography.
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  2. Oct 20, 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,...

  3. Dec 2, 2016 · Writer. Born: May 25, 1928; Died: October 6, 2016. MIKE Tomkies, who has died aged 88, drank with Lee Marvin, reputedly saved Elvis Presley’s life on a carousel and discussed loneliness with...

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  4. Nov 16, 2016 · Scotland. Mike Tomkies, who has died aged 88, spent much of his thirties as a Fleet Street reporter wining and dining Hollywood stars such as John Wayne, Cary Grant and Brigitte Bardot, before...

  5. Dec 28, 2018 · A former Hollywood journalist 1, Surrey-born Tomkies lived for a spell in the Canadian wild (told in the book Alone in the Wilderness) before returning to the UK to try a similar lifestyle in the West Highlands.

  6. I WAS saddened to hear of the death of the wildlife writer and naturalist Mike Tomkies, a man who penned some of the most riveting accounts of living in the natural world alongside golden eagles, wildcats and pine martens.

  7. After a rich life of adventures, from the mundane circles of Hollywood where he spent years writing about the biggest movie stars of the world to the wilderness where he finally chose to retire 'Between Earth and Paradise', Mike Tomkies, the unforgettable master of Moobli, died on October 6th 2016. Maybe Moobli and Mike's friends.

  8. Mike Tomkies. An amazing true story filled with racy, dramatic and often hilarious anecdotes. The second volume in his searingly-honest autobiography. Read of times spent with Hollywood stars such as John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Doris Day and Steve McQueen.