Book description
"The Silver Brumby took me cantering into the world's wilder places." - Geraldine McCaughrean
A silver brumby is a rare and special creature, prized both by other horses and by men...
A silver brumby is special, but he will be hunted by man and horse alike, and must be stronger…
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A kid’s novel about wild horses (known as brumbies in Australia) might seem a strange choice for recommendations about Australian animals, but Elyne Mitchell’s The Silver Brumby was the first book I read that really captured the Australian landscape and its plants and animals. It was also one of the few books that told a story from the perspective of a wild animal without anthropomorphizing.
It’s a wonderfully evocative homage to the Australian alps and the creatures that live there and it reflects a lot of the dilemmas facing Australian conservation today. Wild horses, or brumbies, do a huge amount…
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