Whitcombe and Tombs Limited, 1966. Dustjacket has wrinkled appearance on front (perhaps caused by previous covering), imprints of brown sellotape marks on front and back endpapers, very minor wear to dustjacket spine extremities.

The story of Greenstone is loosely based on the authors' own birth family, taking the romantic and legendary - and therefore more palatable - parts and making them into a novel. To the large family, the crippled father with a long heritage, and the mother at war with her employers, Ashton-Warner adds a M?ori princess and all the myth and legend she brings with her.