The Hole in the Hill by Ruth Park

The Hole in the Hill

by Ruth Park

Illustrated by Jennifer Murray

Ure Smith, 1963
two-tone illustrations at chapter headings, illustrated endpapers
Hardcover with illustrated boards, dustjacket

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-lib with stamps to endpapers, facing half title page and title page.  Dustjacket in good condition with a little rubbing, bumping chipping and small tears, minor discolouration (see photographs)

“When Brownie Mackenzie and her brother Dunk went to New Zealand with their father to dispose of an old farm property he had inherited, they never imagined what adventures – and dangers – lay ahead of them.  Alone at Three-Mile Farm, in a ferny, misty countryside quite unlike the brown and gold plains of New South Wales where they lived, Brownie and Dunk were bewildered by the unearthly noises, and by the strange attitude of their proud Maori neighbours, who seemed intent on acquiring the Three-Mile for themselves, and on preventing the children form exploring it too closely.  What was the mystery of the farm?  And then Dunk fell into a cave – the hole in the hill – and the real adventure began that was to lead the children through measureless underground caverns to the secret of Three Mile Farm…”