Walkabout
By: by James Vance Marshall ; introduction by Lee Siegel
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781590174906
Subjects: Airplane crash survival; Children; Fiction
Description: "A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia, and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, South Carolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Mary and her younger brother, Peter, set out on foot, lost in the vast, hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meeting with an unnamed Aboriginal boy on walkabout. He looks after the two strange white children and shows them how to find food and water in the wilderness, and yet, for all that, Mary is filled with distrust"--Page 4 of cover.