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A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brother and sister and thousands of others who died, battled the annual monsoon rains, starvation, disease and exhaustion, in an attempt to cover the 500-kilometre journey across the border. This autobiography recalls McPhedran's pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese...

"My father, Colin McPhedran, arrived in Australia alone half a century ago, aged 20, with nothing. His extraordinary journey had taken him from his birthplace in Burma along one of the world's deadliest refugee trails to India, then to Britain and on to Bowral in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, which became his home.