Hear the Train Blow - Couverture souple

Patsy Adam-Smith

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0170069133 ISBN 13 : 9780170069137

Editeur : Penguin Group Australia, 1988

Synopsis

The true story of a remarkable young girl growing up in the bush during the Great Depression.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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Group Australia
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0170069133
• ISBN 13: 9780170069137
• Reliure: Paperback
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible