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Elyne Mitchell (1913–2002)

Autor(a) de The Silver Brumby

55 Works 1,608 Membros 16 Críticas 4 Favorited

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Séries

Obras por Elyne Mitchell

The Silver Brumby (1958) 395 exemplares
Silver Brumby's Daughter (1960) 158 exemplares
Silver Brumby Kingdom (1966) 148 exemplares
Silver Brumbies of the South (1965) 134 exemplares
Silver Brumby Whirlwind (1973) 107 exemplares
The Man from Snowy River (1982) 81 exemplares
Moon Filly (1968) 76 exemplares
Son of the Whirlwind (1976) 67 exemplares
Dancing Brumby (1995) 39 exemplares
The Colt from Snowy River (1979) 35 exemplares
The colt at Taparoo (1975) 26 exemplares
Dancing Brumby's Rainbow (1998) 19 exemplares
Australia's Alps (1946) 18 exemplares
The Thousandth Brumby (1999) 16 exemplares
The Silver Brumby [1993 film] (1993) — Writer — 15 exemplares
Kingfisher Feather (1962) 13 exemplares
Jinki: Dingo of the Snows (1970) 13 exemplares
The Lighthorsemen (1987) 11 exemplares
On the Trail of the Silver Brumby (2012) 11 exemplares
Light horse to Damascus (1971) 9 exemplares
Snowy River Brumby (1982) 8 exemplares
Silver Brumby Echoing (2013) 8 exemplares
Snowy River brumby (1980) 8 exemplares
Winged skis (1964) 7 exemplares
Brumby racer (1981) 4 exemplares
Speak to the earth 4 exemplares
Flow River, Blow Wind (1953) 3 exemplares
Soil and civilization 3 exemplares
Images in Water 2 exemplares
A vision of the Snowy Mountains (1988) 2 exemplares
The snow filly (1961) 2 exemplares
Chauvel Country 1 exemplar
Silver Brumby (1969) 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1913-12-30
Data de falecimento
2002-03-04
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
Australia
Local de nascimento
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Local de falecimento
Corryong, Victoria, Australia
Educação
St. Catherine's School, Toorak
Ocupações
novelist
children's book author
autobiographer
cattle rancher

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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.

Membros

Críticas

"But it was from that day on that a legend began to grow up about the cream brumby, cunning as a fox. Stockmen talked of him round their summer campfires, or sung songs about him as they rode around a restless mob of cattle at night, and the cattle told the brumbies, so that they too knew, all over the mountains, the tales of the wild cream brumby."

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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DominiqueMarie | 6 outras críticas | Oct 22, 2023 |
The Chauvel family settled in Australia in 1838 after having left the family home in France for England. Harry Chauvel's daughter, Elyne Mitchell tells of her fathers love of the Australian bush, owning grazing properties at Tabulam NSW and later Canning Downs QLD. He was an accomplished horseman who in WW1 led troops in Gallipoli and Egypt. Elyne also loved the Australian bush and settled in her husbands Tom family property in Towong Hill in the Snowy Mountains. Tom Mitchell was a competitive skier and introduced Elyne to the sport. Elyne documents her skiing adventures around Kosciusko in the 1940s long before the establishment of modern day roads and tourist facilities… (mais)
 
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TheWasp | Feb 4, 2021 |
I probably should have read and probably would have loved this book and the rest of the series when I was 9 or 10. Unfortunately it was not in the public library in Santa Monica, or in the school library either, so here I am feeling like Emily in Beverly Cleary's book Emily's Runaway Imagination, who complained about the chatty horses in the book Black Beauty. The brumbies in Mitchell's book speak in heroic and chivalrous words. Their speechifying is admirable. They are courteous to all: "Greetings, O wombat!" I'm going to say that Mary O'Hara's classic Flicka series about the wild horses of Wyoming, which I recently reread, has more lasting power for older readers. Even the long sections with Thunderhead's point of view avoid excessive anthropomorphism. But I would highly recommend the Brumby books to horse-loving grade school children.… (mais)
 
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muumi | 1 outra crítica | Oct 2, 2020 |
Elyne Mitchell has a wonderful way of bringing to life the magical high country in the minds of those who have never seen it, and causing those who have (such as myself) to recall fond memories of the bush. The imagery she creates means that you never have time to ponder upon the fact that in this entire novel, revolving around the two beautiful brumbies (wild Australian horses, to the uninformed) Wurring and Ilinga, there is no dialogue. Despite this fact, the reader is still able to connect to the horses and their story, their journey to find each other again.

I felt like I could feel the emotion through the pages and yet it never seemed as if Mitchell had anthropomorphized these creatures, which is an easy mistake to make in any fiction where animals are the main characters, and still create a believable story.

The Silver Brumby stories are Australian favourites for a reason.

3.5 stars.
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crashmyparty | Dec 9, 2014 |

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Obras
55
Membros
1,608
Popularidade
#16,036
Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
16
ISBN
221
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
4

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