About the Author: James Vance Marshall
Pseudonym of Donald Gordon Payne.
He lives in Surrey, England, and has four sons and one daughter.
The Children, later known as Walkabout, though published under the name James Vance Marshall, was actually written by the English author Donald Gordon Payne as were a number of Payne's later works for children. The Children and other works were apparently based on Marshall's travel notes and diaries, and in the case of The Children, Marshall may have drafted the work. Marshall claimed the work as his own during his lifetime while Payne has also claimed it as his own. Following Marshall's death, and with permission from the family, Payne continued to publish novels for children and adults using Marshall's name. There has been confusion about the status of the works in numerous sources.
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James Vance Marshall, Lee Siegel
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Hardcover, Published in Jan 2012 by Perfection Learning
ISBN10: 1613833830 | ISBN13: 9781613833834
Page count: 124
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.
On the surface "Walkabout" is an adventure story, but darker themes lie beneath. Peter s innocent friendship with the boy met in the desert throws into relief Mary s half-adult anxieties, and the book as a whole raises questions about what is lost and may be saved when different worlds meet. And in reading Marshall s extraordinary evocations of the beautiful yet forbidding landscape of the Australian desert, perhaps the most striking presence of all in this small, perfect book, we realize that this tale a deep yet disturbing story in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter s "Rock Crystal" and Richard Hughes s "A High Wind in Jamaica" is also a reckoning with the mysteriously regenerative powers of death."
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