Walkabout

Name: Walkabout
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ISBN: 9781590174906

ISBN-10: 1590174909

ISBN-13: 9781590174906

Edition: 2012

Authors: James Vance Marshall, Lee Siegel

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A plane crashes in the vast Northern Territory of Australia,and the only survivors are two children from Charleston, SouthCarolina, on their way to visit their uncle in Adelaide. Maryand her younger brother Peter set out on foot, lost in the vast,hot Australian outback. They are saved by a chance meetingwith an Aboriginal boy on walkabout, who teaches them tofind food and water in the wilderness, but whom Mary can’tbring herself to trust.Though on the surfaceWalkaboutis an adventure story, darkerthemes lie just beneath. Peter’s innocent friendship with theAboriginal throws into relief Mary’s no longer childish anxiety,and together raise questions about how Aboriginal and Westernculture can…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 1/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.08" wide x 8.00" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Lee Siegelis professor of religious studies at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of many books, includingLove in a Dead Language,Who Wrote the Book of Love?, andLove and the Incredibly Old Man, all published by the University of Chicago Press.