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9781869507046
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Story inspired by 13 year old Rochelle Purcell and her horse Kaimanawa Princess and their campaign to save the wild horses of the Kaimanawas in August 2006, when they appeared on television and then participated in a protest on the Desert Rd.
Kaimanawa Princess is a children’s novel inspired by the true story of one of the first ponies culled by the Department of Conservation in the early 1990s, from the now-famous Kaimanawa herds that roam wild on the North Island’s Central Plateau. Its story is a fictionalised account of Kaimanawa Princess’s life from round-up to pony club and eventual success in the competition world, and back again to the Desert Road and the protest
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