Title: Walkabout
First published: 1961
Description: 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: Aboriginal Australians, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Deserts, Fiction, general, Airplane crash survival, Children, Australia, fiction, Children's fiction, Young Adult Fiction, Aircraft accidents, Desert survival, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Survival, fiction, Child and youth fiction, Textbooks for foreign speakers, English language, Readers for new literates, Adventure stories, Rites and ceremonies, Adventure and adventurers, ELT graded readers, General, Fiction - General, 1887-1964., Marshall, James Vance,, Readers, Walkabout
Places: Australia