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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Hear the Train Blow : The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up in the Bush
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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

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1992 .
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      Extent: xiv, 191 p., [8] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 014016538X
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 212p.
      Note/s:
      • Published December 2012
      ISBN: 9781743315736

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Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography David McCooey , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1996 Z477662 1996 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
Classic Makes a Welcome Return Margaret Steinberger , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
Wife, Not Husband, is the Focus Patricia Clarke , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
A Railway Childhood : The Dispersal of the Golden Light Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
High Noon of the Horse and Cart John Doherty , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
Untitled Tom Ronan , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
Two Outbacks Neilma Sidney , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
High Noon of the Horse and Cart John Doherty , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
A Railway Childhood : The Dispersal of the Golden Light Chris Wallace-Crabbe , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
Wife, Not Husband, is the Focus Patricia Clarke , 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 Patsy Adam-Smith , 1992 single work autobiography
y separately published work icon Artful Histories : Modern Australian Autobiography David McCooey , Melbourne : Cambridge University Press , 1996 Z477662 1996 single work criticism (taught in 1 units)
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