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The Nullarbor Kid: Stories from My Trucking Life.
by Gilleland, Ray
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1742379494
- ISBN 13
- 9781742379494
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2012. Paperback octavo, very good condition, black & white text-photos, pages toned as usual, top spine little bumped, minor edgewear corner tips covers. 265 pp. Ray Gilleland relates his fascinating life story as a pioneer trucker on the Nullarbor in postwar Australia. A time when trucks were viewed as an 'upstart industry' that threatened existing railway systems. The author tells of the adventures he and his mates had when the trucking industry was born, and the battlelines between government and truckers.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30527
- Title
- The Nullarbor Kid: Stories from My Trucking Life.
- Author
- Gilleland, Ray
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1742379494
- ISBN 13
- 9781742379494
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- australian biography, autobiography, rural, transport, road transport, australian society, western australia, south australia, nullarbor
- Bookseller catalogs
- TRANSPORT;
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Bookhome Sydney
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Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
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