The Journey
β Scribed by John Marsden
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Year
- 1988;1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A book for all people. And all who read it will be changed by the experience.
". . . an extraordinary book. . . I would commend it to everybody." Terry Lane, ABC Radio
** The Journey** is a story of young people in a world so different and yet so like our own. It is a world in which young people must undertake a journey of discovery on their way to becoming adults.
Fourteen-year-old Argus sets out on his journey away from his valley and his parents, never knowing what adventure will befall him next. He learns how to survive in the wild until he meets with a travelling fair, which he joins, becoming a friend of Mayon the storyteller, of Lavolta and Parara - twins who share the same body - and many others.
But it is with the sweet and wise Temora that he learns some of the deepest secrets.
All journeys must find an end. Argus leaves the fair and travels on alone, until his last and greatest adventure beckons him home. There he...
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