Hear the train blow: Patsy Adam-Smiths classic autobiography of growing up in the bush Tapa dura - 1981

Thomas Nelson Australia 1981.. 1981. Hardcover. Small 4to. hardcover. 176pp. b/w illus. Very good, some foxing. / Very good d/w. .

Australia: Nelson. Good. Hardcover. 1981. 180 pages. .

Thomas Nelson, Australia, 1981. Softcover. Good Condition/Good. 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. 180 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos.… Leer más

Nelson, Melbourne, 1982. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic. 800 g; XII, 180pp., prologue to the illustrated edition, preface by author. Light green coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with contemporary black and white photographs and facsimiles of newspapers and documents. Olive coloured boards with white writing on the spine. Almost no signs of handling. Photographic dustwrapper, showing a photograph of the author as a young woman superimposed over an old steam train, with olive coloured background and black and white writing on the front panel and spine. Very minor rubbing to the corners of the dustwrapper, and to the head and the heel of the spine. The illustrated version of the author's classic story of growing up as a child of railway workers in Australia of the 20s and 30s. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight:… Leer más