Walkabout

About this book

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...

Subjects

• 1887-1964.
• aboriginal australians
• adventure and adventurers
• adventure and adventurers, fiction
• adventure stories
• aircraft accidents
• airplane crash survival
• australia, fiction
• child and youth fiction
• children
• children's fiction
• deserts
• desert survival
• elt graded readers
• english language
• fiction
• fiction - general
• fiction, general
• general
• marshall, james vance,
• readers
• readers for new literates
• rites and ceremonies
• survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks
• survival, fiction
• textbooks for foreign speakers
• walkabout
• young adult fiction