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PK26y The Runaway Adelaide : Rigby , 1961 Z836865 1961 single work children's fiction children's Twelve year old Joanne Mitchell, who has lived with relations in Melbourne since she was five, is sent alone in a sulky to stay with an unknown uncle and aunt. When she reaches their property there is no one home and the cold impersonal home makes her feel more friendless and forlorn than ever, so she snips off her hair, calls herself Joe Casey, and sets off to roam the station country. Harmondsworth London : Penguin Michael Joseph , 1964
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Walkabout
London
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Michael Joseph
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1959
Z549652
1959
single work
novel
'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' (publisher blurb, NYRB Classics).'
Harmondsworth : Penguin Michael Joseph , 1963 - y Finn the Wolfhound London : Grant Richards , 1908 Z1902628 1908 single work children's fiction children's England : Penguin , 1964
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Fly West
London
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1974
Z939341
1974
single work
autobiography
young adult
war literature
'An account of a rookie Australian Air Force squadron stationed in England during World War II.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1978 -
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What About Tomorrow
Sydney
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Angus and Robertson
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1977
Z116660
1977
single work
novel
young adult
— Appears in: A chto zhe eavtra? : Mett i dzho 1981; Ringwood : Penguin , 1980