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  THE LION MOUNTAINS — SIERRA LEONE 1956

  Pounding with the vibrancy of African colour and music, occasionally sad but always engaging, this is a story that captures the heart.

  Eight year old Melanie is spending several months with her parents while her father completes a civil engineering project. Swiftly enthralled by the primeval power of this beautiful African country, she soon discovers that, beneath its happy and apparently carefree exterior, there lurks danger and fear.

  With the innocent eyes and intuition of a young English girl, Melanie learns of the bond of friendship that exist between people of different races.

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  THE SNAKING RIVER — BURMA 1934 – 1941

  Teeming with the joy and abundance of life, the great Irrawaddy river is the life-blood of Myanmar, the country once known as Burma. From its myriad of sources high up in the jungle clad slopes of the mountainous hills bordering China, the 'River of Blessings' winds a thousand miles south to its fertile delta that opens into the Bay of Bengal.

  To a little boy conceived in the Kachin Hills and living by the great river for his first five years, the country's fascinating wildness, creatures, culture and essence burn deep into his character, shaping the whole of his life.

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  A taste of THE ELEPHANTS’ CHILD

  ‘A gush of air bore the animal’s spirit from her body. The earth quaked with the shock: after-tremors rocked the trees, rustling their leaves. Silence: bending trees slowly straightening.

  In the aftermath of death there was a great stillness. Even the calf was still now, frozen in shock, bound in ropes, silent in its cage. The silence stretched: and stretched further. Until slowly, slowly, men crept out from behind trees and undergrowth. Others descended from the treetops. The white man, who had fallen full length upon the ground, pushed himself to his feet and gathered up his gun.

  Silent in her prison, the elephant calf grieved for her mother, her freedom, her kind. Never again, she intuited, would she be free to roam the green and sacred land. Never again would she watch a lazy bird-of-prey circle between the green jungle hills; never again would she play with her kind in the crystal waters of the creeks — squirting water, bathing, drinking, playing. Ever after, she would be at the mercy of man, this puny creature who would beat and poke the spirit from her, until she did his bidding always.

  When Melanie woke in the morning the dream was still upon her. A great weight crushed against her heart and she felt the agony of mother and child in every pore of her being, but she did not weep, for the grief was too deep, too real for tears. And today was the day her mother was going away. It was her grief too.’

  Copyright © 2014 M. L.Eaton

  The right of M. L. Eaton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. May all who read this book be richly blessed.

  Published by Touchworks Ltd. a company registered in England, no. 03668464.

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  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.

  All the characters in this book are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Also by M L Eaton

  Mysterious Marsh series

  #1When the Clocks Stopped

  #2 When the Tide Turned

  #3 When the Earth Cracked

  Faraway Lands Series

  The Elephants’ Child

  The Lion Mountains

  The Snaking River

  Meditation

  Spinning into Form: Book/CD/MP3s

  Poetry

  I Kiss Cold Glass

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  A catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library.