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Giant Yabby
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...Those who listen for their breath in the stillness of wetland air, who read the warnings stitched into soil, and shadow. And those unlikely souls who come together on the cusp of chaos.
In just nine days, a handful of heroes and villains would be swept together in a churning tide of fate. We remember their story, and we retell this saga of our land, lest it be relegated to folklore. Together, these fractured, strange, unwilling allies and foes stood on the shifting edge of a story no longer about a monster, or even a forest. A story about balance. About memory. About whether people, so good at breaking things, might still find a way to heal something vast and wounded. Even if that healing is born from terror.
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Deep in the Walpole Wilderness, something stirs beneath the water. American ecologist Dr. Vanessa Corwynn came to study invasive yabbies. She didn’t expect vanishing wildlife, poisoned rivers—and a creature so large it bends the forest to its will.
With Pibulmun-Wadandi Elder Uncle Clancy at her side, Ness must navigate dangerous ground—where science and story converge, and every step brings them closer to a truth the government and mining giants will do anything to bury.
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In days, heroes and villains will be swept together in a tide no one can escape. And when it breaks, the land will decide who survives.
Thrilling, atmospheric, and steeped in Country’s wild power, Giant Yabby is a race against time, greed, and something far older than fear.
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About the Author
David Guilfoyle was born under the big skies of Western Australia and grew up between Alaska’s glaciers, Oregon’s rainforests, and the red rock mesas of the American Southwest. He is a landscape archaeologist and cultural heritage specialist who treats people and country as community — usually with a bass guitar in one hand and, more often than not, a Dingo at his heel.
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His life unfolds in chapters: projects, expeditions, stories, and long campfire conversations. Always working under cultural leadership, he navigates the complex terrain of cross-cultural science, the politics of heritage, and the deep histories carried in land and water. Now writing fiction, David draws on years of immersive, often confronting experience in heritage preservation, restoration ecology, and culturally-led management programs. His stories pulse with the rhythms of Country, the guidance of Elders, adventures in science, and the wild improvisations navigating conflicted spaces.
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He holds an MA in Archaeology and Heritage and has published widely — from peer-reviewed articles and environmental reports to guidebooks and blogs. His passions flow together: people and place, music and art, plants and animals — all held by a quiet, stubborn belief in hope, renewal and equity.
