$19.54
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
23 December 2014
Summary
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 har…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733633287 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733633285 |
| Author: | Kristin Weidenbach |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 23 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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Full of characters - Daily Telegraph
Told with honesty and vigour - Sydney Morning HeraldA tribute to a man who earned the love of a whole generation of Australians and shows us that the pioneer characteristics of guts and good-natured stoicism are still beautiful - The AgeAbout The Author
Kristin Weidenbach
Kristin Weidenbach became a writer after completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the United States. She has won several international awards for her writing and her articles have appeared in Science, Australian Geographic and academic publications. She is the author of THE MAILMAN OF THE BIRDSVILLE TRACK and the children’s picture book, TOM THE OUTBACK MAILMAN, illustrated by Timothy Ide, and winner of the Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award, 2013.
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