New Windmills: Walkabout (New Windmills) - Hardcover

James Vance Marshall

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 043512224X ISBN 13: 9780435122249

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division, 1977

Synopsis

One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is the story an adolescent girl and her eight-year-old brother, sole survivors of an air crash in the Australian desert. They meet an Aborigine boy who cannot speak any English but shows them how to stay alive.

About this title

About the Author:

James Vance Marshall is one of the pseudonyms of English writer Donald Payne. Walkabout was first published in 1959 and later made into a movie starring Jenny Agutter.

Review:

'Very tender, very touching, and sketched out with no sign of strain. The descriptions of the Australian bush are first-rate.' New Statesman 'A deeply-felt book, filled with information about desert flora and fauna.' Times Literary Supplement 'A small classic, pared down to the bare bones. many will not only enjoy it, but long remember it.' New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books - Secondary Division
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 043512224X
• ISBN 13: 9780435122249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 96