| Author: | Patsy Adam-Smith | ISBN: | 9781743432938 |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin | Publication: | December 1, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Patsy Adam-Smith |
| ISBN: | 9781743432938 |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Publication: | December 1, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Language: | English |
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-SmithÆs classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists.
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-SmithÆs classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists.
