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Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
by Weidenbach, Kristin
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0733619355
- ISBN 13
- 9780733619359
- Seller
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Newport, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Australia and New Zealand: Hodder Australia, 2006. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Bright and clean, unmarked, golden cover, with photograph by Tom and the Badger in 1944, Ooroowillanie sandhill, Birdsville Track. Two eight-page sections of b/w photographs on coated paper. Crease lines are beginning at the lower front corner and the rear lower corner is creased. No spine creases. Binding tight, solid and square. Page edges and pages are clean, white, no markings of any kind. Tom Cruse, loved and respected by a generation of Australians, is a legend of the outback. The Birdsville Track is one of the best known and loneliest tracks in Australia and this track was the one used by Tom the Mailman, where he delivered mail for twenty years, often under the worst conditions--heat, floods, truck breakdowns. He always got the mail through! 313 pages. 5 x 8 inches. 2006, Hodder Australia, Australia and New Zealand
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022671
- Title
- Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The Story of Tom Kruse
- Author
- Weidenbach, Kristin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0733619355
- ISBN 13
- 9780733619359
- Publisher
- Hodder Australia
- Place of Publication
- Australia and New Zealand
- Date Published
- 2006
- Size
- 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" t
- Keywords
- KRUSE, TOM POSTAL SERVICE-BIRDSVILLE TRACK AUSTRALIA
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography. Autobiography;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Spine
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