Seeing through snow
By: Matthew Higgins
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Port Adelaide, [South Australia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9781760413897
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction; Adopted children; Australian Adventure stories
Description: Born in a blizzard, Les Leong is adopted into a Chinese-Australian family. He grows up in the declining gold town of Kiandra in the NSW Snowy Mountains and lives through a time in Australia now long past. Les lives the life of a bushman among a captivating array of characters. He has adventures - and misadventures - in the city too. As Les ages, he learns what Australia and the high country really mean, and pursues a quest for understanding bequeathed by Aboriginal forebears.
Notes: "A novel by Matthew Higgins"--Cover.