NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN : The Autobiography of Outback Publican, Mayse Young

AUSTRALIANA Biography –

Illustrated. 191014/0118/0928/0619/0120X/220323/161125 pp. 177 illusts Born in the bush, the daughter of an itinerant railway ganger, the author lived under canvas as a child, learn to cook in a camp oven, to make a home from packing cases and kerosene tins. She has survived the dust and floods of the Northern Territory, the Japanese bombing of Darwin and the destruction wrought by Cyclone Tracy.

• xii, 177 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., 1 map, ports. ; 23 cm.

• • Young, Mayse, 1913-
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