Hear the train blow: Patsy Adam-Smith?s classic autobiography of growing up in the bush

Adam-Smith, Patsy

ISBN 10: 0170059952 / ISBN 13: 9780170059954

Published by Nelson, 1981

About this Item

Author has signed the book on page 3. Hardcover. 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 willful 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. 1981. Reprint. A near fine copy of book. Dust cover is good but plastic protection cover has been fastened with yellow tape.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hear the train blow: Patsy Adam-Smith?s classic autobiography of growing up in the bush
• Publisher: Nelson
• Publication Date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0170059952
• ISBN 13: 9780170059954
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian History