Verlag: WriteLight Pty Ltd, Sydney, 2016
ISBN 10: 0994325568 ISBN 13: 9780994325563
Anbieter: BOOKHOME SYDNEY, Annandale Sydney, NSW, Australien
Paperback small trade, very good condition, black & white text-photos, few tiny dents rear cover, minor edgewear, autograph (author's written name). 96 pp. The special memoir of John Thomson, known to his friends as 'Jack'. He has spent his whole life in Balmain. Born in 1927, Jack remembers the days of the Depression, when a kind greengrocer would give the fruit that was not perfect to the hungry children. His father was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the rest of his live in Callan Park when Jack was five, and his mother became ill with tuberculosis, and died when he was nine. The Phillips family took him in, and he tells about his happy time with this warm, quintessentially old Balmain family. After school he worked at CSR in Pyrmont, then on the trams and buses. Jack still lives in Birchgrove in the house he bought in 1954 when he worked on the trams. He has seen many changes. Jack's story is a warm retelling of how life was lived in old Balmain, when people didnât have much money, but they had their neighbours and community.
Verlag: WriteLight Pty. Ltd. For the Kosciusko Alpine Club., Sydney, 2009
ISBN 10: 0977563995 ISBN 13: 9780977563999
Anbieter: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australien
Erstausgabe
Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. HEAVY. 320pp, index, member list, references, appendices, bw & col ills, maps, decorative endpapers. Or green cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to jacket. Loosely inserted 2011 Christmas card from the Kosciusko Alpine Club welcoming the recipient (unnamed) to the club. Extensive hisotry of Australia's second oldest ski club, which since its inception has been a major contributor to the development of skiing in Australia. The KAC now has over 2000 members and maintains ski lodges at Charlotte's Pass, Perisher Valley, and Thredbo. Size: 4to.