Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002)
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The Silver Brumby Stories: Silver brumby + Silver Brumby's Daughter + Silver Brumbies of the South (1988) 28 exemplaren
SILVER BRUMBY STORIES - Vol 2 - Silver Brumby Kingdom, Silver Brumby Whirlwind, Son of the Whirlwind (1993) 19 exemplaren
Brumby Stories : The Silver Brumby, Dancing Brumby , Dancing Brumby's Rainbow , Brumbies of the Night (1999) 14 exemplaren
Speak to the earth 4 exemplaren
Images in Water 3 exemplaren
Soil and civilization 3 exemplaren
Australian Treescapes : a Photographic Study 3 exemplaren
Chauvel Country 1 exemplaar
Australian Treescapes 1 exemplaar
Stories of Australian Horses 1 exemplaar
The Silver Brumby Compilation 1 exemplaar
Silver Brumby Kingdom Compilation 1 exemplaar
Black Cockatoos Mean Snow 1 exemplaar
Wild Echoes Ringing 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1913-12-30
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2002-03-04
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Australia
- Geboorteplaats
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Plaats van overlijden
- Corryong, Victoria, Australia
- Opleiding
- St. Catherine's School, Toorak
- Beroepen
- novelist
children's book author
autobiographer
cattle rancher - Korte biografie
- Elyne Mitchell was born in Melbourne, Australia, a daughter of General Sir Henry (Harry) Chauvel, one of his country's most famous military officers as commander of the ANZAC Desert Mounted Corps in World War I. She learned to ride at an early age. She was educated at St. Catherine's School, Toorak. In 1935, she married Tom Mitchell, a lawyer and later Member of the Victorian Parliament, with whom she would have four children. They moved to Towong Hill, a remote cattle station in the Snowy Mountains area in southern New South Wales/northern Victoria known as the "Australian Alps." Her husband taught her to ski, and in 1938 she won the Canadian downhill skiing championship. During World War II, her husband served in the Australian army and was posted to Singapore, where was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese. Elyne managed the property herself and began writing books describing the Australian landscape and wildlife she loved in great detail. These included Australia’s Alps (1942), Speak to the Earth (1945), and Soil and Civilisation (1946). She is widely known for her Silver Brumby series of 13 books for children about a wild palomino stallion. The first of these, The Silver Brumby (1958) was adapted into a 1993 Australian film and later a children's cartoon television series. She wrote a total of 25 fiction and 10 nonfiction books; she also wrote poetry, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles. In 1989, she published her memoir Towong Hill: Fifty Years on an Upper Murray Cattle Station. She often illustrated her work with her own photographs.
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- 4.0
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Most books that I've come across about Australia are set in the Outback, but The Silver Brumby is set in the snowy mountains of southern Australia. When I was a teenager, The Silver Brumby was one of my favorite movies. I watched it over and over again. I had never read the book, but I was happy to discover that it was first published in 1958, so I could read it for this category in the reading challenge. Subjectively, I loved this book simply for the feelings of nostalgia it gave me. Objectively, I think it's a beautiful book. My few complaints are that it can be a bit wordy at times, and that the wild horse herd dynamics were not portrayed accurately. While it's true that wild horse herds usually only have one full grown stallion, he is not the leader. In reality, wild horses are matriarchal. I'm going to give Mitchell some slack on this point because I'm not sure if this was known at the time of her writing, and it was also more difficult to research in a time without internet. Thowra is a rare palomino, "creamy", brumby. He is so pale that he appears to be silver. His mother, Bel Bel, teaches him to be clever and swift because she knows he will be hunted for this. Thowra faces many challenges as he grows up in the wild Australian Alps, culminating in an epic battle of strength and wits between man and brumby. The horses speak, but their words and the human qualities given to them are kept to a minimum. The descriptions and actions of the horses are more compelling than the dialogue. The vivid descriptions of the landscape bring the setting of the Australian Alps to life. This book was written for children/teens, but adults can enjoy it as well. I'd love to read the other books in this series, but I'm having a hard time finding them.
CAWPILE Rating:
C- 9
A- 10
W- 8
P- 9
I- 10
L- 6
E- 10
Avg= 8.8= ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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