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Fifteen-year-old Lib Rinke is perfectly comfortable at home with his fascinating books and television game shows. He has no interest in tagging along with his father and brother on their outdoor expeditions. But this year he couldn't get out of it.
Lib finds himself heading toward Shadow Creek and the Tumbledown Ranch with his father, brother, and the Burr twins, Foy and Coy. He's got Traveling with Termite and Spud stashed to read for passing the time, but the great outdoors ends up being quite the adventure. From simple father-and-son bonding to an encounter with Bigfoot at Mermaid Falls, Lib is constantly finding new surprises. And the biggest one of all is that he has the power to speak up for himself. By the time the group finally leaves their friends at the Tumbledown Ranch, Lib is ready to branch out. He makes strides he never thought possible, all with his father at his side.
In this thought-provoking tale of a young man finding himself, a portrait of familial love and self-confidence unfolds. Initially held back by frustrating speech impediments, Lib is on the way to a big transformation.
Don Williams
Don Williams grew up absorbing the host of television programs, books and movies about the titanic World War Two aerial battles in Europe's skies that pervaded Australia in the 1960s and 1970s. His childhood bedroom was filled with models of Spitfires, Hurricanes, Messerschmidts and Stukas.
Later in life, Don sought to better understand the role of Royal Australian Air Force in the Pacific War. He was surprised and disappointed to find that no book telling the complete story of Australia's own wartime emergency fighter, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Boomerang, had been published.
Don decided to fill this gap by writing a book dedicated to the Boomerang. He is also a keen amateur photographer and is pleased that some of his photographs are included in the book.
Sound research and writing were foundations of Don's career as a policy analyst and these skills were further honed when he completed a mature age PhD. He also researched and published an article that identified the Royal Air Force squadron responsible for the death of Nazi Germany's Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, the most senior German officer killed by enemy fire in World War Two.
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