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'For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track.
'Tom delivered everything from the mail and newspapers to fuel and food - whole communities waited in anticipation for him to drop off their supplies. But it was a hard life, from regularly making running repairs to his truck to unloading and reloading tons of stores so that he could ferry his cargo across flooded creeks. Come sandhills, hell or high water, Tom Kruse kept faith with the locals up and down the Track. Tom was a real Australian hero - and no matter what happened, the mail always got through.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (2015 ed.).
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Dedication: To my father, Neil Weidenbach, for bringing Tom into our lives.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Winter Reading
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 252 2003; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography ; And What Have You Done Lately? 2003 single work autobiography ; Cecilia : An Ex-Nun's Extraordinary Journey 2003 single work autobiography ; Sailing Alone Around the World 1899 single work autobiography ; Childhood at Brindabella : My First Ten Years 1962 single work autobiography ; A Guide to Australian Folklore: From Ned Kelly to Aeroplane Jelly 2003 reference -
Tom Kruse's Mission was Mail
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 May 2003; (p. 8a)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography -
Keeping the Mail on Track
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography
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Keeping the Mail on Track
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 April 2003; (p. 6)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography -
Tom Kruse's Mission was Mail
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 May 2003; (p. 8a)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography -
Winter Reading
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June-July no. 252 2003; (p. 57-58)
— Review of Mailman of the Birdsville Track : The Story of Tom Kruse 2003 single work biography ; And What Have You Done Lately? 2003 single work autobiography ; Cecilia : An Ex-Nun's Extraordinary Journey 2003 single work autobiography ; Sailing Alone Around the World 1899 single work autobiography ; Childhood at Brindabella : My First Ten Years 1962 single work autobiography ; A Guide to Australian Folklore: From Ned Kelly to Aeroplane Jelly 2003 reference
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- Birdsville Track SA / Qld, North East South Australia, Far North South Australia, South Australia,