Yeelirrie: Wendy's Place by Alan Jones

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page. Wear to book corners and edges, with all corners now protected with book tape. Body text and binding are still very good.

With three generations of her family, Wendy Folvig lived almost fifty years on Yeelirrie Station near Wiluna in Western Australia. They developed and worked Yeelirrie from 1923 to 1972, when a major uranium discovery was announced, and the station was sold.

Wendy was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) on Australia Day, 2013, for community service in a number of organisations. These included sixty years' continuous membership of the Country Women's Association of Western Australia, and the National Trust of Australia (WA). Wendy is a life member of both bodies.

This is a story of many parts: life on an outback station, family serving in the Great War, gold mining, the discovery of uranium, and a life beyond Yeelirrie.