James Vance Marshall
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 Aboriginal boy on walkabout, who teaches them to find food and water in the wilderness, but whom Mary canâ€™t bring herself to trust. ,Though on the surface ,Walkabout, is an adventure story, darker themes lie just beneath. Peterâ€™s innocent friendship with the Aboriginal throws into relief Maryâ€™s no longer childish anxiety, and together raise questions about how Aboriginal and Western culture can meet. And in the vivid descriptions of the natural world, we realize that this storyâ€”a deep fairy tale in the spirit of Adalbert Stifterâ€™s ,Rock Crystal,â€”must also be a story about the closeness of death and the power of nature.
Fiction,Cultural,Australia,Young Adult,Adventure,Classics,Adventure,Survival,Childrens,Academic,School,Academic,Read For School,Travel
Walkabout