Magabala Books

Format Paperback
Pages 136
ISBN 9781925768831
Release date September 2, 2019
Category
All books Culture and History Junior Non-fiction Middle readers

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Yinti, Desert Child

New Edition

The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yinti’s development from a young bushie to a competent station worker and adult. Yinti is a traditional Walmajarri Aboriginal boy growing up Great Sandy Desert in the remote North West of Australia – one of the most marginal environments on earth. This is the story of Yinti’s coming of age. He has no contact with white people until the last chapter of the book when he meets his first white man, first horse and first bullock. The stories are based on people and events as told to Pat Lowe by Jimmy Pike.

Format Paperback
Pages 136
ISBN 9781925768831
Release date September 2, 2019
Category
All books Culture and History Junior Non-fiction Middle readers

Resources
Download cover image Media release Reading Australia Teachers Notes

Jimmy Pike

Jimmy Pike (deceased) was born near Japingka, a waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert, in about 1940, and his early years were spent as a hunter and gatherer. He walked out of the desert when he was 14-years-old when his...

Pat Lowe

Pat Lowe was born and grew up in England but dreamed of migrating to Australia, which she did in 1972. She worked as a teacher in Africa and as a prison psychologist in Australia, but writing has always been her...