Werribee Farm / by Rob Laurent
- Bib ID:
- 7789367
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Laurent, Rob, 1948-, author
- Printer:
- [Guangzhou, China] : Guangzhou Tenglong Printing Co. Ltd.
- Description:
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- Highfields, Qld : Rob Laurent, [2018]
- ©2018
- 194 pages, 17 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780958192163 (paperback)
- Summary:
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“Rob Laurent and his brothers spent on idyllic childhood in the unlikely surrounds of the Werribee sewage treatment from where their father, Bob, worked during the 1950s. Werribee Farm tells of the boys’ escapades, the characters they meet, and the wildlife they encounter as they explore the maze o wetlands and canals around them. Older brother John is a budding scientist, always searching for items of natural history to add to his “museum”. Young Rob is more interested in Bob’s after-hours hobby of woodwork. It is during their evenings in the shed together that Rob learns of his father’s abused childhood, and his determination to avoid the mistakes of the past. Family unity is a major theme of this story, in a setting that often tests the bonds between members of the author’s family. Includes many photos depicting Australia during the post-war decade.”--Back cover.
- Subject:
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- Laurent, Rob, 1948-
- Laurent, Rob, 1948- -- Family
- Laurent family
- Melbourne Water. Western Treatment Plant -- History -- 1945-1965
- Boys -- Victoria -- Werribee -- Biography
- Families -- Victoria -- Werribee -- Biography
- Water treatment plants -- Victoria -- Werribee -- History -- 1945-1965
- Sanitation workers -- Victoria -- Werribee -- Biography
- Adult child abuse victims -- Biography
- Biography: general
- History
- Werribee (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- History -- 1945-1965
- Werribee (Vic.) -- Social conditions -- History -- 1945-1965
- Werribee (Vic.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- History -- 1945-1965
- Werribee (Vic.) -- Biography
- Australian
- Also Titled:
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- Cover title: Werribee Farm : growing up at Melbourne Water's Western Treatment Plant, back in the 1950s
- Werribee Farm : growing up at Melbourne Water's Western Treatment Plant, back in the nineteen-fifties
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2018
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