All Aboard! Tales of Australian Railways by Jim Haynes and Russell Hannah

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers removed. Stamps on inside pages. Previous owners name redacted. Wear to book corners and edges. Some creasing to front cover. Faint marks on foredges.

Relive the spirit of a bygone era with Jim Haynes's All Aboard.

With more than eighty evocative black and white photographs peppered throughout the text, the book includes stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, D H Lawrence, Henry Handel Richardson and Henry Lawson, and some character pieces by Russell Hannah and Jim Haynes.

Also included in the collection are some rhymed verses by Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson and others, as well as accounts of significant incidents and historical characters like the Granville train disaster and Ben Chifley.

A must for all railway enthusiasts and lovers of Australiana. (publisher blurb)