Author: Catherall, Arthur; Smith, Stanley (illustrator).
Title: Duel in the High Hills.
Description: London / Melbourne J. M. Dent & Sons / Cambridge University Press (Australia), 1970. Special Australian ed. Paperback, very good condition, flexible covers, black & white drawings, rear cover little marked, minor edgewear corners & top edge. 156 pp. Australian school edition. This school reader for young adults is about a 13-year-old boy named Temba who has to get help alone, after his father is wounded by a snow leopard in the Himalayan Hills. The snow leopard finds peace with her kittens in the Indian Hills, after being hunted and wounded. This book is suitable for older children.

Keywords: young adults fiction, education, animals, cats, leopards, asia, himalayas


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