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Payu's Journey (Tales Of Yawa Book 1) Kindle Edition

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A child's story, but with adult meanings, Payu's Journey is allegorical. In Australia's Great Sandy Desert Payu the Dingo loses her pups to human trappers. By a strange set of circumstances, she comes into possession of a human baby. Her maternal instincts take over, she determines to keep the infant. But she knows it can not survive the harsh desert conditions, she must find a land of green grass and flowing water. She has heard stories of such a place in the north country. This is the story of her journey to find that land, of Ngur the White Dingo, Ritta the Roo and all the animals who join her in her quest, and the adventures that befall them. Beyond that, the reader will find deeper levels of metaphorical circumstance where animals key an antidote to a Trumpian world.

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4 - 13 years
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103 pages
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English
Grade level

Preschool - 7
Publication date

28 August 2016
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R Lawson Gamble is the author of the popular Zack Tolliver, FBI mystery series. He lives on the Central Coast of California.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JMJF59K
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rich Gamble Associates; 1st edition (28 August 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 901 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 103 pages

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Award-winning author R Lawson Gamble lives and writes in Los Alamos in the Central Coast of California. In addition to his Zack Tolliver, FBI series he published the pictorial history, Los Alamos Valley, with Arcadia Press, and Payu's Journey, an analogical journey seen through the eyes of Australian animals. He has recently published a Western series, Johnny Alias, currently three books in length. An ardent historian, the author has made appearances as a speaker and has participated in documentary films.

The award-winning Zack Tolliver novels (Gold, Silver, and Bronze from Readers' Favorite International Book Awards) are all crime mystery fiction. Unlike some series in the Native American category, the protagonists Zack Tolliver and Eagle Feather find themselves in different settings in each new novel––intriguing environments with varied cultures, history, and political undercurrents, all of which present unusual impediments to solving the new mystery.

Of course, certain features never change. The reader may expect Zack Tolliver and Eagle Feather in every story, and relatives, associates, and friends make appearances from time to time. Even an arch villain or two sometimes returns. There is always a crime (usually a murder), a mystery, lots of action, suspense, well-researched history, actual topographical features, Native American cultures and myths and, of course, an element of mysticism and the paranormal.

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Cindy Huelat

Good tale

Reviewed in the United States on 27 October 2018

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Love this story. What a wonderful tale of spirit and cooperation. I have an Australian Shepherd named Kiah, which is Aborigine for By The Beautiful Place. Would love to see a Kiah in a future tale. Looking forward to the sequel!

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Fred Patten

Fantasy based on a true incident

Reviewed in the United States on 7 May 2017

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This is written for Young Adults but will be of interest to adults. As the cover shows, it is set in Australia and features Australian animals – and a human baby.

Payu’s mate has been killed at their den by humans while she was out hunting, and her pups stolen. Wandering grief-filled through Australia’s northwest, she comes across two human campers and steals their infant. At first she takes him to a large dingo pack, but Ruwa, its alpha male, fears the human retaliation that is sure to follow. She next meets a lone dingo, Ngur, who offers to help. She is startled when he brings Ritta, a red kangaroo. Ritta carries the human pup, a boy whom they name Yawa, in her pouch so the tracking human dogs will not find any scent to follow. The three set out for the far north, where the desert gives way to a green and lush jungle with plenty of fruits and water.

Payu’s Journey, Book 1 of the Tales of Yawa trilogy, is obviously inspired by the famous 1980 Australian case of a two-month-old baby girl who was stolen from camping parents and eaten. This fantasy has a happier conclusion, yet it also ends on a cliffhanger with a promise that Payu's and Yawa’s journey will take a markedly different turn in the next book. Readers will want to follow this to Book 2.

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Lolly

A Must Follow Tale

Reviewed in the United States on 22 September 2017

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I enjoyed R Lawson Gamble's Native American Mysteries so much! This book, by the end of it, has me charmed! I must find out how the journey continues! Hope the next one is in the works.

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