Hear The Train Blow. Autobiography

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 1981
Edition: Reprint

Description: 180 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. This Is The True Story Of A Remarkable Young Girl Growing Up In The Bush During The Great Depression.


Publishers Description: 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.

ISBN: 0170059952