Description: No Roads Go By:by Myrtle Rose White, (hardcover 1956).the book has foxing mainly on end papers,and the right-hand bottom corner is crunched sightly as you can see by the photos, the dustjacket has tears and worn edges.This is a reprint of the first illustrated edition with black/white illustrations by Elizabeth Durack.1954.For seven years, the author of this book lived on an 8000-square-mile cattle station in the sandhill country of South Australia. The homestead was surrounded by drifting sandhills, the heat was intense, and rain fell only very rarely. When it did fall , there was a brilliant rewarding blooming of wildflowers, and flocks of wild birds appeared. Such brief periods of fertility and beauty were . For the most part, Mrs White chronicles a womans fight against loneliness, monotony, sickness, and drought. In tremendous isolation fifty miles from a telephone, one hundred from a doctor she had her babies and brought up her young family. She records many moments of emotional appeal, many of humour, and many of dramatic intensity. And though for the most part this is a womans story No Roads Go By is also a mans book since Mrs White understands so well the challenge of the land, and the courage of the men who responded to that challenge.
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Format: Hardcover
Publication Year: 1956
Book Title: no Road sky by
Publisher: Angus and Robinson
Original Language: English
Item Length: 24cm
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Vintage: Yes
Language: English
Illustrator: Elizabeth Durack
Era: 1950s
Item Height: 3cm
Author: Myrtle Rose white
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Adventure
Topic: hardship
Item Weight: 450 g
Item Width: 15cm
Number of Pages: 205
