Author | James Vance Marshall |
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Original title | The Children |
Language | English |
Genre | Survival |
Published | Michael Joseph, 1959 (as The Children) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Book |
Pages | 125 |
OCLC | 11073830 |
Walkabout is a novel written by James Vance Marshall (a pseudonym for Donald G. Payne), first published in 1959 as The Children.[1] It is about two children, a teenage sister and her younger brother, who get lost in the Australian Outback and are helped by an Indigenous Australian teenage boy on his walkabout. A film based on the book, with the same title came out in 1971, but deviated from the original plot.