Hear the train blow : Patsy Adam-Smith's classic autobiography of growing up in the bush / Patsy Adam-Smith.
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TextSeries: Girlie series ; 1.Publication details: Melbourne, Vic : Nelson, 1981Edition: Expanded ill. edDescription: xii, 180 p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0170059952Subject(s): Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1926-2001 -- Childhood and youth | Adam-Smith, Patsy -- Biography | Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1926-2001 | Adam-Smith, Patsy -- Childhood and youth | Adam-Smith, Patsy | Adam-Smith, Patsy, 1926- | Adam-Smith, Patsy | 1929 | Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography | Autobiographies | Country life -- Australia -- Biography | Depressions -- 1929 -- Australia | Depressions | Manners and customs | Authors, Australian -- Biography | Gippsland (Vic.) -- Social life and customs | Australia -- Social life and customs | Australia | Victoria -- GippslandDDC classification: 994.5/6042/0924 LOC classification: CT2808.A32 | A3Other classification: HQ 2999 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.
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Sequel: Goodbye girlie.
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.
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