From Banjo Paterson's immortal ballad comes the classic novel.
TRADE EDITION: Jim Craig: 18 years old and proud as they come, he cannot return to his mountain home until he has proved himself a man. Jessica Harrison: the beautiful, impetuous daughter of a wealthy cattleman whose precious colt runs off to join a pack of wild horses known as the brumbies. The great black stallion: leader of the brumbies for
From Banjo Paterson's immortal ballad comes the classic novel.
TRADE EDITION: Jim Craig: 18 years old and proud as they come, he cannot return to his mountain home until he has proved himself a man. Jessica Harrison: the beautiful, impetuous daughter of a wealthy cattleman whose precious colt runs off to join a pack of wild horses known as the brumbies. The great black stallion: leader of the brumbies for
Jim Craig is eighteen-years-old, and cannot return to his mountain home until he has proven himself a man. Jessica Harrison is the beautiful, impetuous daughter of the wealthy cattleman whose £1000 colt runs off to join the brumby mob. And then there is the stallion, leader of the brumbies for almost twenty years, ranging free and proud in the mountains, whose very existence is like a dark thread running through the lives of so many people...
Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002) is Australia's much-loved author of the Silver Brumby series. Married to lawyer, and later parliamentarian, Thomas Walter Mitchell, she lived with their four children in the mountains. She was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to literature in 1988 and later an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Charles Sturt University in 1993. Richard Aspel is a talented narrator of children's and adult audiobooks. He trained and worked in London, before returning to Australia where he has worked extensively in television, theatre and radio. His television credits include Neighbours and Carson's Law, and he provided various voices for The Silver Brumby animated series. Richard was nominated for the prestigious Audie Award (US) for his narration of The Mark of the Angel by Nancy Huston.
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