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Tom Cruse, loved and respected by a generation of Australians, is a legend of the outback. The Birdsville Track is one of the best known and loneliest tracks in Australia and this track was the one used by Tom the Mailman, where he delivered mail for twenty years, often under the worst conditions--heat, floods, truck breakdowns. He always got the mail through! 313 pages. 5 x 8 inches. 2006, Hodder Australia, Australia and New Zealand
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Peter is a voiceover artist and actor with over thirty years of stage, television, and film credits, in Australia and in Europe. He has toured Australia with a variety of stage shows and appeared on TV in Something in the Air, Ponderosa, and Last Man Standing. Film appearances include Pride (shot in Japan), Siam Sunset, The Wog Boy, Razor Eaters, and Personality Plus. For Bolinda Audio he has also narrated Arthur Upfield's Venom House, Winds of Evil, and Mr Jelly's Business.
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Full of characters - Daily TelegraphTold with honesty and vigour - Sydney Morning HeraldA tribute to a man who earned the love of a whole generation of Australians and shows us that the pioneer characteristics of guts and good-natured stoicism are still beautiful - The Age
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- PublisherHodder
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0733619355
- ISBN 13 9780733619359
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages313
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