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Mailman Of The Birdsville Track: The story of Tom Kruse

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Mailman Of The Birdsville Track: The story of Tom Kruse
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Kristin Weidenbach
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 128
Category/GenreBiographies and autobiography
ISBN/Barcode 9780733633287
ClassificationsDewey:383.492
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Australia
Imprint Hachette Australia
Publication Date 23 December 2014
Publication Country Australia

Description

For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track. Tom delivered everything from the mail and newspapers to fuel and food - whole communities waited in anticipation for him to drop off their supplies. But it was a hard life, from regularly making running repairs to his truck to unloading and reloading tons of stores so that he could ferry his cargo across flooded creeks. Come sandhills, hell or high water, Tom Kruse kept faith with the locals up and down the Track. Tom was a real Australian hero - and no matter what happened, the mail always got through.

Author Biography

Kristin Wiedenbach became a writer after completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the United States. She has won several international awards for her writing and her articles have appeared in Science, Australian Geographic and academic publications. She is the author of Mailman of the Birdsville Track and the children's picture book, Tom the Outback Mailman, illustrated by Timothy Ide, and winner of the Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award, 2013.

Reviews

Full of characters - Daily Telegraph Told with honesty and vigour - Sydney Morning Herald A tribute to a man who earned the love of a whole generation of Australians and shows us that the pioneer characteristics of guts and good-natured stoicism are still beautiful - The Age