Ben & Mark: Boys of the High Country

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Ben & Mark: Boys of the High Country
Christine Fernyhough & John Bougen
Random House New Zealand
ISBN 978-1-86979-068-4 pb RRP $36.99
Target age 8+

The true story of two boys who live on one of New Zealand’s largest high-country stations. Lovingly told by Christine Fernyhough and with stunning photographs by John Bougen, this book is destined to become a New Zealand classic.

	Christine Fernyhough runs Castle Hill Station, near Porters Pass in Canterbury, with her husband John Bougen. An ardent advocate of learning and reading, she was the co-founder of the Books in Homes programme and later the Gifted Kids programme. In 2007 she published the award-winning The Road to Castle Hill, about her switch from life in Auckland to that of a high-country farmer.
	John Bougen is a farmer, photographer, businessman and Guinness World Record-holding traveller. His camera has been in action on ten books, including the award-winning Made in Morocco (with Julie le Clerc), The Road to Castle Hill (with Christine Fernyhough) and, most recently, Bowling Through India (with Justin Brown and Brendon O’Hagan.