Yinti, Desert Child Yinti, Desert Child:Default Title Kamdon's warm and creative understanding

Kamdon's warm and creative understanding of the animals he sees is a lively showcase of his talent

On a hot desolate day in the West Australian hinterland

Kunyi June Anne McInerney was just four years old when she and three of her siblings were taken from their family to the Oodnadatta Children’s Home in South Australia in the 1950s

And just like their music

From hunting goannas

Yinti, Desert Child Yinti, Desert Child:Default Title Kamdon's warm and creative understandingNew Edition The first book in the Yinti series of three books. The stories are linked in a sequence that shows Yintis 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 Yintis coming of age. He has no contact with white people until the last