Hear The Train Blow : An Australian Childhood
by Adam-Smith, Patsy
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- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 014016538X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140165388
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About This Item
Ringwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books, 1992. Reprint . Soft cover. Fair/No Jacket. 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.
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- Bookseller
- Train World Pty Ltd (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- UB-185
- Title
- Hear The Train Blow : An Australian Childhood
- Author
- Adam-Smith, Patsy
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014016538X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140165388
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- Ringwood, Victoria, Australia
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- USED-Australia
- Bookseller catalogs
- USED-Australia;
- X weight
- 0 g
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