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Présentation de l'éditeur :
Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's wheat-rich Goulburn Valley, that kept drawing them back. These were days of yabbying and rabbiting, of bush girls riding bareback on wilful ponies, and of the tin-lizzies that transformed the Mallee forever. It was a time for learning, for devouring books and for satisfying a powerful thirst for knowledge. And then it was a time for war. Hear the Train Blow tells of Patsy Adam-Smith's classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists.
Biographie de l'auteur :
PATSY ADAM-SMITH was one of Australia's best-known and best-loved authors. Awarded the O.B.E. in 1980 for services to literature and the Order of Australia in 1994 for services to recording oral history, she was the author of thirty books, all of which have topped or appeared on bestseller lists. Among her most popular books were Hear the Train Blow (the story of her childhood), The Shearers , Australian Women at War , Heart of Exile , There Was a Ship , Outback Heroes and The Anzacs , which was joint winner of The Age Book of the Year Award in 1978. Prisoners of War received the prestigious triennial Order of Australia Association Book Prize in 1993.
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- ÉditeurPenguin Books Australia
- Date d'édition1992
- ISBN 10 014016538X
- ISBN 13 9780140165388
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages191
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Hear the Train Blow: Her Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. N° de réf. du vendeur CHL8102233
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Description du livre The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush Gewicht in Gramm: 550 geringe äußere Gebrauchsspuren, innen sauber. N° de réf. du vendeur 65436
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Description du livre Paperback. Etat : Good. No Jacket. A crease to the spine and some fading to same, some yellowing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback book. The author's account of her childhood in remote rural Victoria (Australia) in the years before WW2. 191pp, 8pp b&w illustrations. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 007589
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Hear The Train Blow : An Australian Childhood
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Description du livre Soft cover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. 191 pages b/w photos - Born "illegitimately", Patricia Jean Smith was adopted by railway workers, her mother a station-mistress and her father a fettler. She lived in a number of small Victorian country towns and was educated at small country schools. She enlisted as a nursing VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) during the Second World War, serving from 17 March 1943 to 14 July 1944. Later, she was the first female to be articled as a radio officer when she worked on an Australian merchant ship from 1954-1960. She then lived in Hobart from 1960 to 1967 where she worked as an Adult Education Officer and, in 1970, she took the position of Manuscripts Field Officer for the State Library of Victoria, a job she did until 1982. N° de réf. du vendeur UB-185
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