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Hear the Train Blow : the Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush by Patsy Adam-Smith [Adam-Smith, Patsy] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

Who reads Hear the Train Blow : the Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush?

Author

Patsy Adam-Smith [Adam-Smith, Patsy]

Publisher

Allen & Unwin

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781743315736

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Biography, Humanities