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'The true story of a remarkable young girl growing up in the bush during the Great Depression.
'Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's wheat-rich Goulburn Valley, that kept drawing them back.
'These were days of yabbying and rabbiting, of bush girls riding bareback on wilful ponies, and of the tin-lizzies that transformed the Mallee forever. It was a time for learning, for devouring books and for satisfying a powerful thirst for knowledge. And then it was a time for war.
'Hear the Train Blow tells of Patsy Adam-Smith's classic upbringing during the Great Depression. It is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia, and of a life that no longer exists.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
- y Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1996 Z477662 1996 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
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Classic Makes a Welcome Return
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newcastle Herald , 18 July 1992; (p. 48)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
Wife, Not Husband, is the Focus
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 April 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
A Railway Childhood : The Dispersal of the Golden Light
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 90 1987; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
High Noon of the Horse and Cart
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 October 1981;
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography
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Untitled
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Twentieth Century , vol. 19 no. 1965; (p. 373-374)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
Two Outbacks
1965
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 31 1965; (p. 49-50)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
High Noon of the Horse and Cart
1981
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 October 1981;
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
A Railway Childhood : The Dispersal of the Golden Light
1987
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 90 1987; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography -
Wife, Not Husband, is the Focus
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 18 April 1992; (p. 11)
— Review of Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush 1992 single work autobiography - y Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1996 Z477662 1996 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
- Bush,
- Victoria,
- 1920s
- 1930s