An Alice girl

Resource Information

The work An Alice girl represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

An Alice girl

Statement of responsibility

Tanya Heaslip

Creator

• trueHeaslip, Tanya

Author

• trueHeaslip, Tanya

Subject

• trueAuthors, Australian -- Biography
• Autobiographies
• Country life -- Australia -- Biography
• Country life -- Northern Territory | Alice Springs
• trueFathers and daughters
• Heaslip, Tanya
• Heaslip, Tanya -- Childhood and youth
• Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Biography
• Livestock workers -- Biography
• truePioneers -- Australia -- Biography
• Ranches -- Northern Territory | Alice Springs -- Biography
• trueRural conditions
• Women -- Northern Territory | Alice Springs -- Biography
• trueWomen authors -- Australia -- Biography
• Heaslip, Tanya -- Family
• Alice Springs (N.T.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

Whether working the mobs of cattle with the stockmen, playing cattleduffing on horseback or singing and doing lessons at their School of the Air desks, Tanya Heaslip and her siblings led a childhood unimaginable to many Australians. Growing up on a vast and isolated cattle property just north of Alice Springs, Tanya tells of wild rides, of making far-flung friends over the Air, of the dangers, the fun and the back-breaking work. As the eldest child, her added responsibility was to look after the littler ones, so she was by their sides dealing with snakes, the threat of bushfires and broken bones. Tanya's parents, Janice and Grant 'the Boss' Heaslip, were pioneers. They developed Bond Springs Station where water was scarce, where power was dependent on generators and where a trip to town for supplies meant a full day's journey. Grant was determined to teach his children how to survive in this severe environment and his lessons were often harsh. In a childhood that most would consider very tough, Tanya tells of this precious time with raw honesty, humour, love and kindness. This is the story of an Alice girl

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

636.213092

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction