The boy from Snowy River / Horsemanship Teenage boys Young adult fiction.
Silcock, Fred,
The boy from Snowy River / Fred Silcock. - 205 pages ; 23 cm.
"Jem Tyler is thirteen years old when he arrives at Foxhow station on the Snowy River in the year 1880. He is illiterate. But he has ambitions.Through a book that is read to him he sees a connection between a mare he owns and the ponies of the Mongolian steppes. But how could there be such a connection or how could he prove it? At age seventeen he sets out for the town of Albury to learn to read and write. A chance meeting with a horseman riding in a different direction leads him into an adventure at the end of which the story of his horsemanship and mettle of his pony become a legend"--Back cover.
9781925588064 (paperback)
Horsemanship--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Snowy River (N.S.W. and Vic.)--Juvenile fiction.
A823.4
The boy from Snowy River / Fred Silcock. - 205 pages ; 23 cm.
"Jem Tyler is thirteen years old when he arrives at Foxhow station on the Snowy River in the year 1880. He is illiterate. But he has ambitions.Through a book that is read to him he sees a connection between a mare he owns and the ponies of the Mongolian steppes. But how could there be such a connection or how could he prove it? At age seventeen he sets out for the town of Albury to learn to read and write. A chance meeting with a horseman riding in a different direction leads him into an adventure at the end of which the story of his horsemanship and mettle of his pony become a legend"--Back cover.
9781925588064 (paperback)
Horsemanship--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Teenage boys--Australia--Juvenile fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Snowy River (N.S.W. and Vic.)--Juvenile fiction.
A823.4