Description |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 27 cm |
Series |
Girlie series ; 1 |
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Girlie series ; 1
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Summary |
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 |
Notes |
Sequel: Goodbye girlie |
Subject |
Adam-Smith, Patsy.
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Adam-Smith, Patsy -- Childhood and youth.
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Adam-Smith, Patsy., 1926-
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Adam-Smith, Patsy., 1926-2001
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Authors, Australian -- Biography.
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Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Autobiographies.
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Country life -- Australia -- Biography.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
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Gippsland (Vic.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98005937 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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LC no. |
81188162 |
ISBN |
0170059952 |
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