Because We Were the Travellers - Softcover

Lasenby, Jack

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9781877135026: Because We Were the Travellers

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ISBN 10: 187713502X ISBN 13: 9781877135026

Publisher: Hyland House, 1998

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In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames towards the western horizon. As the sky turns fiery, figures appear in the landscape: a boy, limping, accompanied by an old woman. Cast out from their tribe they make the Journey alone, away from the sun' rage, away from the deserts of the north, toward the southern lands.

This is Ishs tale, a tale of rejection, of survival against the odds, of growing up in an age when much is feared, and few can be trusted.

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About the Author:

Jack Lasenby was born in Waharoa, New Zealand in 1931. During the 1950s he was a deer-culler and possum trapper in the Urewera Country. He is a former school teacher, lecturer in English at the Wellington Teachers College, and editor of New Zealands School Journal.

He held the Sargeson Fellowship in 1991, the Writers Fellowship at the Victoria University of Wellington in 1993, and was the Writer in Residence at the Dunedin College of Education in 1995. He is the author of many novels for children and young adults, including award-winning books The Lake, The Conjuror, The Waterfall and The Battle of Pook Island.

Jack Lasenby is one of New Zealands foremost writers. His novels for children and teenagers have won several major awards, including the Esther Glen Medal, the AIM and NZ Post Childrens Book Awards. He is well known for the delightful Uncle Trev and Harry Wakatipu stories as well as his award-winning novels about the Seddon Street Gang. Because We Were the Travellers won an Honour Award at the 1998 NZ Post Childrens Book Awards.

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intense, vivid, poetic a cruel and beautiful book. -- John Marsden

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