A River Rules My Life by Mona Anderson torrent

The original and all-time classic of high-country station life in New Zealand

Mount Algidus, the author's home, was one of the great high-country sheep

stations of Canterbury, New Zealand. It occupied a mountain range between two

ice rivers and lay in the very shadow of the Southern Alps.



Published with the Mona Anderson estate as a beautiful hard-back, this new

edition brings back the isolated world of the Wilberforce, the river that

governed Mona's life for 33 years. In the early 1940s Algidus was regarded as

some of the wildest, roughest farming land in New Zealand.



'The river was my Rubicon', Mona said. 'I had heard stories about the terrible

Wilberforce: so many people had been drowned in it. I tried not to think about

the time when I could have to cross it. But the road had come to an end at a

corrugated iron shed. Somewhere beyond it I knew we would find the station,

Mount Algidus, a green, high-country oasis amid the snow and the tussock...'





Print Length : 212 pages

Publisher : HarperCollins (September 18, 2017); Original version: 1962

Publication Date : September 18, 2017


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