Green Mountains
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
High in the rainforest-draped ranges of south-east Queensland, where the ancient Gondwana wilderness presses in from every side, Bernard O'Reilly built a life of extraordinary courage and quiet purpose. Green Mountains is the remarkable true account of the O'Reilly family's pioneering settlement in the Lamington Plateau region — a rugged, breathtaking world of cascading waterfalls, dense subtropical jungle, and extraordinary wildlife that few Europeans had dared to call home. O'Reilly chronicles the daily rhythms of frontier life with warmth and vivid precision, weaving together tales of backbreaking hardship, profound natural beauty, and the fierce, unshakeable bond between a family and their wild mountain home. The narrative reaches its dramatic zenith with O'Reilly's now-legendary solo search through treacherous terrain for survivors of the 1937 Stinson aircraft disaster — a feat of bushcraft and human endurance that captured the attention of an entire nation. Written with the unpretentious authority of a man who lived every word, Green Mountains stands as one of Australia's most beloved works of nature writing and personal memoir. O'Reilly's prose carries the scent of wet fern and mountain mist, presenting the natural world not as backdrop but as a living, breathing protagonist in its own right. Deeply rooted in a sense of place that is both fiercely local and universally human, this classic Australian narrative raises enduring questions about what it means to belong to a landscape — and what that landscape demands in return.
Author: Bernard O'Reilly
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
High in the rainforest-draped ranges of south-east Queensland, where the ancient Gondwana wilderness presses in from every side, Bernard O'Reilly built a life of extraordinary courage and quiet purpose. Green Mountains is the remarkable true account of the O'Reilly family's pioneering settlement in the Lamington Plateau region — a rugged, breathtaking world of cascading waterfalls, dense subtropical jungle, and extraordinary wildlife that few Europeans had dared to call home. O'Reilly chronicles the daily rhythms of frontier life with warmth and vivid precision, weaving together tales of backbreaking hardship, profound natural beauty, and the fierce, unshakeable bond between a family and their wild mountain home. The narrative reaches its dramatic zenith with O'Reilly's now-legendary solo search through treacherous terrain for survivors of the 1937 Stinson aircraft disaster — a feat of bushcraft and human endurance that captured the attention of an entire nation. Written with the unpretentious authority of a man who lived every word, Green Mountains stands as one of Australia's most beloved works of nature writing and personal memoir. O'Reilly's prose carries the scent of wet fern and mountain mist, presenting the natural world not as backdrop but as a living, breathing protagonist in its own right. Deeply rooted in a sense of place that is both fiercely local and universally human, this classic Australian narrative raises enduring questions about what it means to belong to a landscape — and what that landscape demands in return.