Henry Hoke's Guide to the Misguided by Mark Thomson, ISBN 9780733320422

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Mark Thomson takes his reader on a journey to discover the undiscovered greatness of shed inventor extraordinaire.

Who was Henry Hoke? Watt, Boulton, Stephenson, Whitworth, Edison. . . these are the great engineers and inventors of the past who laid the foundation of our industrial strength and prosperity. Now there is a new name to add to that stellar field: Henry Hoke. Henry Hoke has only recently passed away, leaving a shed full of his life's work. The Hoke family contacted Mark Thomson, author of the cult classic, Blokes & Sheds and the Research Director of the Australasian Institute of Backyard Studies as they felt his work had unfortunately escaped greater recognition within his own lifetime. What the Institute's researchers found was astounding: a range of baffling and enigmatic tools and objects (or more often, the containers in which they had been) which appear to defy the accepted laws of physics and the principles of engineering. Henry Hoke, through his Hoke's Tool Company, was (potentially at least) our own Thomas Edison: to the end a sceptical, energetic man whose intellect ranged far and wide over the broadest field of human endeavour imaginable and even, at times, beyond.

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About the Author: Mark Thomson

Mark has lived in Adelaide all his life, where he gained a diploma in Fine Arts specialising in painting. He has worked as a set painter and designer for films and theatre, as a photographer and newspaper editor, and has played in bands and worked in the music scene.

He makes ends meet these days by writing and designing print material, specialising in social issues and ideas. Mark spends a lot of time hanging around his shed, repairing various bicycles and trying to avoid working on his computer. He runs a semi-mythical organisation known as The Australasian Institute of Backyard Studies (formerly the Shed Institute and the Barbecue University of Australia). Some of the Institute's investigations may prove to be the subject of Mark's future publications.

HarperCollins has published Blokes & Sheds and Stories From the Shed, both of which have been hugely successful. A diary and calendar has been produced for 1997, and will also be released for 1998.

Mark says of Blokes & Sheds, 'The book is an attempt to revalue the shed in Australian life: to explain that it plays a central and basically positive role in many men's lives. This book took more than four years to make and involved visiting more than 150 sheds.'

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