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Ringwood, Victoria: Penguin Books, 1992. A crease to the spine and some fading to same, some yellowing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this paperback book. The author's account of her childhood in remote rural Victoria (Australia) in the years before WW2. 191pp, 8pp b&w illustrations.. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Title Hear the Train Blow
- Author Patsy Adam-Smith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Publisher Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Australia
- Date December 16, 1992
- ISBN 9780140165388
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Hear The Train Blow : An Australian Childhood
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Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books, 1992. Reprint . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 191 pages b/w photos - Born "illegitimately", Patricia Jean Smith was adopted by railway workers, her mother a station-mistress and her father a fettler. She lived in a number of small Victorian country towns and was educated at small country schools. She enlisted as a nursing VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) during the Second World War, serving from 17 March 1943 to 14 July 1944. Later, she was the first female to be articled as a radio officer when she worked on an Australian merchant ship from 1954-1960. She then lived in Hobart from 1960 to 1967 where she worked as an Adult Education Officer and, in 1970, she took the position of Manuscripts Field Officer for the State Library of Victoria, a job she did until 1982.
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Penguin Books, Australia, 1992. Softcover. Good Condition. 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. 191 pages. Tanning to pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight:…
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