Iron Mountain by Mavis Thorpe Clark

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Book as some edgewear particularly at the bottom. Pages have sunning, including the inside cover. Dust jacket is in good condition with some tearing and creasing on the top.

17-year-old Joey Simpson sets out from Melbourne, headed for the Northwest without knowing or understanding a great deal about the mining boom. A chance meeting on the Nullarbor Plain with the Rose family persuades Joey to join them on the drive to Tom Price, the Pilbara Region Western Australia.

Set in the iron ore mining region of Western Australia, Iron Mountain is the story about a young man who faces hardship, trial and danger in a courageous attempt to gain meaning for his life.