Donald Gordon Payne Donald Gordon Payne i(A47996 works by)
Also writes as: James Vance Marshall
Born: Established: 1924 London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon How Turtle Got His Shell And Other Stories James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), Walker Books Australia , 2015 8722238 2015 selected work short story Indigenous story

'How did turtle get his shell? Why do young koalas cling to their mothers' backs? How was the mighty Murray River created? Ten witty retellings of legends, some of them from the Yorta Yorta people, to delight readers of all ages.' (Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon More Stories from the Billabong James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), Newtown : Walker Books Australia , 2013 5984170 2013 single work picture book children's
2 2 y separately published work icon Stories from the Billabong James Vance Marshall , Francis Firebrace (illustrator), London : Frances Lincoln Children's Books , 2008 Z1588781 2008 selected work picture book children's

This picture book contains stories such as, The Rainbow Serpent and the Story of Creation; How the Kangaroo Got Her Pouch; Why Frogs Can Only Croak; Why Brolgas Dance; Why the Platypus Is Such a Special Creature; The Mountain Rose; The Two Moths and the Flowers of the Mountain; How the Crocodile Got Its Scales; The Lizard-Man and the Creation of Uluru; The Butterflies and the Mystery of Death.

2 y separately published work icon A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime James Vance Marshall , New York (City) : M. S. Mill and William Morrow , 1970 Z1544892 1970 single work children's fiction children's 'Sarah, fourteen, and Joey, eleven, are brother and sister, the children of an Aborigine mother and a Japanese pearl diver. For most of their lives, they have lived at the Melville Island Mission, where they have been Christianised and educated. As the story opens they are being transported by truck far into the interior, where they are to live and work on a station. Beyond Alice Springs the truck is struck by a tornado and completely demolished, the driver killed. Joey knows that they are now in the country of his people, and at his insistence they start out to walk to the hills of the Dreamtime...' (Dust jacket)
11 7 y separately published work icon Walkabout Donald Gordon Payne , James Vance Marshall , London : Michael Joseph , 1959 Z549652 1959 single work novel

'A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an unnamed Aboriginal boy on walkabout. He looks after the two strange white children and shows them how to find food and water in the wilderness, and yet, for all that, Mary is filled with distrust.

'On the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, but darker themes lie beneath. Peter's innocent friendship with the boy met in the desert throws into relief Mary's half-adult anxieties, and the book as a whole raises questions about what is lost—and may be saved—when different worlds meet. And in reading Marshall's extraordinary evocations of the beautiful yet forbidding landscape of the Australian desert, perhaps the most striking presence of all in this small, perfect book, we realize that this tale—a deep yet disturbing story in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal and Richard Hughes's A High Wind in Jamaica—is also a reckoning with the mysteriously regenerative powers of death' (publisher blurb, NYRB Classics).'

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