From Banjo Paterson's immortal ballad comes the novel - the stirring tale of the boy who became the man from Snowy River. Jim Craig is eighteen years old and cannot return to his mountain home until he has proved himself a man. Jessica Harrison is the beautiful, impetuous daughter of the wealthy cattleman whose expensive colt runs off to join the brumby mob. And then there is the stallion, leader of the brumbies for almost twenty years, ranging free and proud in the mountains, whose very existence is like a dark thread running through the lives of so many people...