The boy from Snowy River / Fred Silcock.
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TextPublisher: North Melbourne, Victoria : Arcadia, 2017Copyright date: ©2017. Description: 205 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925588064 (paperback)Subject(s): Horsemanship -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Teenage boys -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Snowy River (N.S.W. and Vic.) -- Juvenile fiction | Young adult fictionDDC classification: A823.4 Summary: "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.
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"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.
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