They Tell Their Own Tales: The Vanishing One-Teacher Schools: Historical Collection of Stories of One-Teacher Schools in Western Australia in Western Australia

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Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to covers and foredges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Signed by author. One-teacher schools are a vanishing curiosity in Western Australia. When they go, a last trace will be a history complied by Freda Spark of Lathlain, who has been collecting the reminiscences of parents, pupils and teachers. Freda Sparks was a lone bush teacher and remembers well ferrying children home in a buggy through fires and storms.Preparing lessons by candle light. Learning to ride a horse and a bicycle. (Introduction)