Patsy Adam-Smith Collection: Hear the Train Blow, Goodbye Girlie, There Was a Ship

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly tail edge. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages have sunned.

Complete and unabridged. Autobiographical books - Hear the Train Blow and Goodbye Girlie.

Hear the Train Blow is the story of a young girl growing up in the bush during the Great Depression. It is a magical book brimming with warmth, sadness, and memories of life as it was lived before radio, TV, and even electricity reached the hard areas on the edge of the outback.

Goodbye Girlie - For Patsy Adam-Smith, WWII was a ticket away from a cherished but restricting life with her railway family. Enlisting as a nurse in the army, Patsy set out into adulthood. But the world she encountered presented more challenges than she could ever imagine

There Was a Ship tells of Patsy's love affair with the sea and ships, with the small ketches that no longer trade around the Australian coastline, the lighthouse families and the mutton birders. Much of what she describes so vividly is gone forever, but her fascination with a unique way of life paints a brilliant, and unforgeable picture.