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Walkabout

Walkabout

by James Vance Marshall, Jim Alderson, Gillian Porter Ladousse

1961Aboriginal AustraliansFictionSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecksDesertsFiction, general
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Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget...

Themes & subjects

Aboriginal AustraliansFictionSurvival after airplane accidents, shipwrecksDesertsFiction, generalAirplane crash survival
First published 1961

Setting

Australia

About the author

James Vance Marshall

1924 – 2018

English author. James Vance Marshall was the pseudonym of Donald Gordon Payne

Authors

James Vance Marshall, Jim Alderson, Gillian Porter Ladousse

First published

1961

Pages

123

Read time

≈ 3h

Editions

31

Languages

English, German, und

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

ISBN

9783526419792

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