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Soft cover. Condizione: Good. The Autobiography of outback publican, Mayse Young. Some rubbing and marks around the book. Yes (illustratore).

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Bumping of edges. Some creases on covers particularly on spine edge. Very slight tanning of pages. Inscribed fly leaf. Pine Creek publican Mayse Young was a legendary beauty and outback identity by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the 'thirties and 'forties she reared seven children. she was also 'Mum' to hundreds of stockmen, miners and drifters for whom her hotel was the best drinking hole on the track- the meeting place, unofficial bank, library, makeshift surgery and sometimes doghouse for an entire community. Born in the bush, the daughter of an itinerant railway ganger, Mayse lived undercanvas as a child, learned to cook in a camp oven, to make a home from packing cases and kerosene tines. Twice in her life she saw the destruction of her home and of all she owned. she survived the heat, dust and floods of the Territory, the Japanese bombs on Darwin during the war and, later, the devastation wrought by Cyclone Tracy. In No Place for a Woman Mayse Young writes herself into Australian legend.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. 180 pages. wear, tannedIllustrated autobiography of a colourful outback identity now in her seventies. Describes her life from childhood, when she livedunder canvas and learnt to cook in a camp oven, to her adult life surviving the heat, dust, floods and cyclones of the Northern Territory.…

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 2nd Reprint of 1st Edition. A clean straight book, appears unread.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good +. 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- Hotelkeepers -- Northern Territory -- Biography(age tanning) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 2nd Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good. Mayse Young was a legendary beauty and outback identity by the age of twenty. In the Northern Territory of the 1930s and 1940s, she raised seven children. She was 'Mum' to hundreds of stockmen, miners and drifters for who her hotel was the best drinking hole on the track.…