Mailman of the Birdsville Track

The story of Tom Kruse

Kristin Weidenbach

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Hachette Australia
23 December 2014

Biography: general; Biography - Australian

For the people who lived in the desert between Marree and Birdsville, contact with the outside world was hard and sporadic - but one man was their lifeline: Tom Kruse. For more than twenty years he was the connection with the outside world for the families, station workers and others who lived along the Birdsville Track.

Tom delivered everything from the mail and newspapers to fuel and food - whole communities waited in anticipation for him to drop off their supplies. But it was a hard life, from regularly making running repairs to his truck to unloading and reloading tons of stores so that he could ferry his cargo across flooded creeks. Come sandhills, hell or high water, Tom Kruse kept faith with the locals up and down the Track.

Tom was a real Australian hero - and no matter what happened, the mail always got through.

By: Kristin Weidenbach
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 240g
ISBN: 9780733633287
ISBN 10: 0733633285
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 23 December 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kristin Wiedenbach became a writer after completing postdoctoral research at Stanford University in the United States. She has won several international awards for her writing and her articles have appeared in Science, Australian Geographic and academic publications. She is the author of Mailman of the Birdsville Track and the children's picture book, Tom the Outback Mailman, illustrated by Timothy Ide, and winner of the Eve Pownall Book of the Year Award, 2013.

Reviews for Mailman of the Birdsville Track: The story of Tom Kruse

Full of characters - Daily Telegraph Told with honesty and vigour - Sydney Morning Herald A tribute to a man who earned the love of a whole generation of Australians and shows us that the pioneer characteristics of guts and good-natured stoicism are still beautiful - The Age