Once a pommie swagman, Nick Thomas ; editor, Anne van Alkemade
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Once a pommie swagman, Nick Thomas ; editor, Anne van Alkemade
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individual biography
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non fiction
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Once a pommie swagman
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Nick Thomas ; editor, Anne van Alkemade
Summary
Sydney 1961. Two bored, broke, naive and ill-prepared sixteen-year-old Pommie-born boys set off on the spur of the moment to make their fortune. In six months they thumb, bum and meander across four thousand miles, from Sydney to Magnetic Island, Julie Creek to Leeton. The author was one of those boys. This heart-warming memoir also provides a social history of the day, including an insight into three distinct types of 'swaggies?
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adult
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