Hear the Train Blow - Softcover
- PublisherPENGUIN BOOKS AUSTRALIA
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 014016538X
- ISBN 13 9780140165388
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages191
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Hear the Train Blow: Her Classic Autobiography of Growing up in the Bush
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Seller Inventory # CHL8102233
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Hear the Train Blow
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Book Description The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush Gewicht in Gramm: 550 geringe äußere Gebrauchsspuren, innen sauber. Seller Inventory # 65436
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Hear the Train Blow
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Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria
(1992)
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 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. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 007589
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Hear The Train Blow : An Australian Childhood
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Penguin Books, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
(1992)
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. 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. Seller Inventory # UB-185
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