A Long Way From Misery
Turner Jack, Jacqui Halpin
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Cover Type: Softcover
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Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Crown Mountain Press
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Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition
Description: 298 pages. Signed By Authors
Publishers Description: Born in 1926, Jack lived in a different time, but the way he sees it, they were better days. He loved his childhood, growing up with his many siblings on a farm called Misery, and retells it with delight.A Long Way from Misery takes you on a rollicking journey through the Australia of yesteryear with Jack Turner, the larrikin shearer, as he rescues his brother whos being drowned by a kangaroo, rides a wild steer through the house, and leaps off a moving train. But these misadventures are nothing compared to his mother wielding a carving knife.
ISBN: 9780994496300
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