Yinti Desert Cowboy

by Pat Lowe, Jimmy Pike

Gradually, Yinti and Wara grew accustomed to station life. They no longer ran and hid when they saw a motorcar coming along the road towards them.

Yinti leaves the dry sandhill country to work on a cattle station, a shock transformation shared by a generation. Leaving behind the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the young boy growing to manhood encounters his first car and the mighty Fitzroy River. Still a mischief-marker, he finds out all about horses and houses, station life and town life. And then, Yinti falls in love...

The third and final book from the award-winning Yinti Series of three books that shows Yinti's development from a young bushie to a skilled station worker and adult.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

About the author

Pat Lowe grew up in the UK, dreaming of sunshine and vast spaces. She spent three years studying and teaching in East Africa, then moved to Western Australia. She was soon taking an interest in the local bush and its inhabitants.

After studying psychology, Pat worked in Perth prisons for several years. She applied for a transfer to Broome in the Kimberley, where she met Walmajarri artist, Jimmy Pike. Later, Pat joined Pike at his camp in the Great Sandy Desert and started writing books with him about desert life. She has published twelve titles, fiction and nonfiction, and contributed to a number of collections.

Reviews

[Annie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one could be read by MG and YA readers alike as the character has grown in maturity and in age and it delves into other themes of self discovery and learning about things that were new to Yinti but consume our lives daily. It was fun to read, again lovely insight into Indigenous Australian culture through remarkable story telling. Highly recommended to a young audience from ages 9 years and up. With special thanks to Magabala Books for sending me a copy for review.

[ljoss · Rating 4 out of 5]

A charming book for young adults.

[Lynda · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the 3rd book in the Yinti series, where Pat Loewe has portrayed the memories of the childhood and growing up stories of Jimmy Pike in the 1940s and 1950s in northern Western Australia. As more and more desert people went to join relatives working on large cattle stations to the north, Yinti convinces his family to make the final move as well, leaving the old Great Sandy Desert way of living behind. Yinti becomes a proud and valued stockman - it's still a very hard life, but more varied and predictable than the old desert living.

This beautiful book is also featured on the website of the National Centre for Australian Children's Literature
https://www.ncacl.org.au/atsi-resource/

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