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No beating about the bush : 10 years living with the dust, dingoes and extraordinary characters of the Birdsville Track / Val Oldfield, as told by Ashley Mallett.
Publication details: Glenelg, S. Aust. : Val Oldfield, 2013.Description: [8], 208 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 map, photographs (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780646593494
- Oldfield, Val
- Oldfield, Val -- Childhood and youth
- Oldfield family
- Oldfield, Val
- Country life -- Birdsville Track (S.A. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Ranch life -- Birdsville Track (S.A. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Country life -- Australia -- Birdsville Track (S.A. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Ranch life -- Australia -- Birdsville Track (S.A. and Qld.) -- Biography
- Mungeranie Station (S.A.) -- Biography
- Mungeranie Station (S. Aust.) -- Biography
- Birdsville Track (S.A. and Qld.) -- History
- South Australia -- Social life and customs
- Queensland -- Social life and customs
- Australian
- 920.72 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 920.72 OLD | Available | 057099 |
Total reserves: 0
Dedicated to Susan Joy Oldfield.
"The dust, the flies, the dingoes are the only company, sometimes for weeks, the occasional crackle of a voice over a wireless radio from far-flung places - this was the world of Val Oldfield for 10 years when living on Australia's infamous Birdsville Track. ... Val Oldfield was flung into this world as a naïve newly-wed from an Adelaide seaside suburb in post-war boom years of Australia. No beating about the bush traces her life from childhoold years, when she wriggled her little toes in the sand at Semaphore Beach, to her teenage years as a modern young in 1950's miss about town, to the alien environment of The Track and to Val's years beyond."--Back cover.
