Outback Penguin : Richard Lane's Barwell diaries / edited by Elizabeth Lane, Fiona Kells, Louise Paton, Stuart Kells; [foreword by Geoffrey Blainey].
Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Black Inc, 2016.Description: xx, 428 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781863958172
- 1863958177
- Richard Lane's Barwell diaries
- Lane, Richard, 1905-1982 -- Childhood and youth
- Lane, Richard, 1905-1982 -- Diaries
- Lane, Richard, 1905-1982
- Penguin Books Australia Ltd -- History
- Penguin Books Australia Ltd -- History
- Penguin Books Australia Ltd -- History
- Publishers and publishing -- Biography
- Child migrant agricultural laborers -- Australia -- Biography
- Teenage immigrants -- Australia -- Biography
- Youth -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Teenage immigrants -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Teenage immigrants -- Social conditions
- Youth -- Social conditions
- Australia
- Australian
- 920.71 23
- 070.5092 23
- HD1539.A8 L36 2016
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 920.71 LAN | Available | 064696 |
Illustrations on endpapers.
Includes index.
"Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935. But like all great stories, his life didn't start there. After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant ? a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the 'Barwell Boys' scheme. In Australia, he deepened his appreciation for literature, and understood how important it was to make good writing widely accessible. Richard's diaries ? the honest and moving words of a teenager, so very far away from home, capture vividly his life and loves; the characters he met; the land he worked; the families he depended on; and his coming of age in a new land. A remarkable social record and one of the best first-hand accounts of the child migrant experience, the diaries also capture the ideas and the entrepreneurship that led to the founding of the twentieth century's most famous publishing house. With a foreword by eminent Australian historian Geoffrey Blainey, Richard Lane's diaries are an important document for the history of rural Australia and global publishing."--Dust jacket.