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According to an interview with Tom Wright, the Silver Brumby series arose from Mitchell's difficulties in finding suitable reading material for her daughter Indi, then 10 and being raised in some isolation on the Mitchell family property Towong Hill, a remote cattle station in the Snowy Mountains. Set in the Snowy Mountains area of the ...
The Silver Brumby series is a collection of fiction children's books by Australian author Elyne Mitchell.They recount the life and adventures of Thowra, a magnificent creamy grey brumby (Australian feral horse), and his descendants, and are set in the Snowy Mountains of Australia around Mount Kosciusko.
The term brumby refers to a feral horse in Australia. [8] Earlier nineteenth-century terms for wild horses in rural Australia included clear-skins and scrubbers. [9]The earliest known use of brumby in speech (1862, recorded 1896) is on the plains around the Barwon River and Narran River in northern New South Wales. [10]
Brumby shooting or brumbies shooting is the practice of eradicating feral horses, or "brumbies", in Australia. It has been conducted since the 1800s, and continues into the present day. It has been conducted since the 1800s, and continues into the present day.
The Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018, also known as the Brumby Bill, [1] [2] is a state-based act of parliament in New South Wales (NSW). [3] Its long title is An Act to recognise the heritage value of sustainable wild horse populations within parts of Kosciuszko National Park and to protect that heritage . [ 3 ]
Rescuers were battling heavy snow Wednesday to reach a Marine Corps helicopter carrying five troops that went down in the mountains outside San Diego. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter — the ...
The Silver Brumby is an Australian animated children's television series written by Jon Stephens, Judy Malmgren and Paul Williams based on Elyne Mitchell's Silver Brumby books. A total of 39 episodes were produced by Media World Features between 1996 and 1998 [ 1 ] and was originally broadcast on Network Ten .
The Snowy Mountains scheme began construction in 1949 and was completed in 1974. It was a world-class feat of engineering and became a symbol of post-war reconstruction. It involved 100,000 workers from around the world who reversed rivers and built 16 dams, 7 power stations and 145 kilometres of tunnels. [ 2 ]