I didn't know that there was a book of the 1987 movie "The Riddle of the Stinson" until I found a copy of "Green Mountains" wrongly tucked away in the self-help book section at Vinnies. (I normally don't visit that section, but today I simply couldn't help myself!)
"Before I looked down, I knew what I would see – a mass of smashed and charred metal. It was more than that: it was a horrible, unclean thing, which held the trapped remains of what once were men – a replusive thing which I could not go near. The voices – men alive, but in what condition? I stood for a minute, afraid to go to them, afraid of what I would see."
"Green Mountains" recreates the events surrounding Bernard O’Reilly's heroic search for and discovery of the survivors of the Stinson wreck. In the second part of the book, O'Reilly tells of the family's move to Queensland from the Blue Mountains of New South Wales and their work in establishing the Guest House at Green Mountains. What a find!
