Range The Mountains High

by Judith Wright

Illustrated by I. Waloff

Lansdowne Press, 1963, [Second Impression], black and white illustrations (line drawings), hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, previous owners inscriptions to front end paper, tape residue to front and back end papers, age toned pages, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, creasing, chipping and small tears to edges and corners (see photographs)

“Hugh and Joanna Cherry and their mother, newly arrived from Ireland, were stranded at Port Macquarie on the coast of New South Wales.  It was 1870, and their father, a manager of a gold mine many miles inland, had been injured on the job.  They were very anxious to join him, and there was only one route – the old aboriginal track over the mountains.  Brushing aside warnings of bushrangers, precipitous mountains and bottomless ravines, and the danger of getting lost, the family set off bravely over the mountains, on horseback.  The people they meet on their way, and the adventures they become involved in, make a thrilling story set in a colourful background of early Australia.”

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