Hear the Train Blow

Adam-Smith, Patsy

ISBN 10: 014016538X / ISBN 13: 9780140165388

Published by Penguin Books, 1981, 1992

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The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush Gewicht in Gramm: 550 geringe äußere Gebrauchsspuren, innen sauber.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hear the Train Blow
• Publisher: Penguin Books, 1981
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014016538X
• ISBN 13: 9780140165388
• Binding: Soft cover
• Weight: 550 grams
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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.