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Outback Penguin
Richard Lane
Geoffrey Blainey
其他書名
Richard Lane's Barwell Diaries
出版
ReadHowYouWant
, 2017
ISBN
1525242849
9781525242847
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Yr7FswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Richard Lane was one of three brothers who founded Penguin Books in 1935. But like all great stories, his life didn't start there. After sailing to Adelaide in 1922, Richard began work as a boy migrant - a farm apprentice living in rural South Australia as part of the 'Barwell Boys' scheme. In Australia, he deepened his appreciation for literature, and understood how important it was to make good writing widely accessible. Richard's diaries - the honest and moving words of a teenager, so very far away from home, capture vividly his life and loves; the characters he met; the land he worked; the families he depended on; and his coming of age in a new land. A remarkable social record and one of the best first-hand accounts of the child migrant experience, the diaries also capture the ideas and the entrepreneurship that led to the founding of the twentieth century's most famous publishing house. Richard Lane's diaries are an important document for the history of rural Australia and global publishing.