Roslyn May

By the Side of the Tracks (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is based on the lives of real people and actual events. This remarkable story imagines the life of one young couple in the heady days of the 1880s railway boom, their struggles in the depression of the 1890s, and their rescue from poverty by the Kalgoorlie gold rush. Rob and Mary were both born and raised by the tracks in railway navvy camps, but Rob wants something better for his children and his beloved Mary. In the cold mountain air of Ben Lomond, he promises her she will have a home by the sea. Mary cares more for the people in her family than for houses but follows Rob from colony to colony as he chases opportunities until the day the work runs out, and the lives of their children are in danger. Rob and Marys quest for the great Australian dream parallels the coming together of the colonies to form the nation of Australia. At the start of the new century, it seems they have finally made it, but dreams can be easily shattered. Told with empathy for the characters and an eye for detail for social history, By the Side of the Tracks is a tribute to the thousands of navvies and their families who built the railways, which made it possible for Australia to become one nation.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, D ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781514497791
• Artikelnr.: 52597896

Autorenporträt

Roslyn was given a gold ring with the initials MJD in 1968 when her great-aunt Emily died. She wore it for forty-five years, sometimes turning it on her finger and wondering about the woman who had once owned it. After a successful career as a child and family psychologist, she retired in 2014 and has spent the last two years researching and writing the story of her great-grandmother, Mary Jane Day. Roslyn lives with her husband, Alan, in Canberra. They have two sons and two grandchildren. This is her first book.