Walkabout / James Vance Marshall ; retold by Jim Alderson ; illustrated by Trevor Parkin.
By: Marshall, James Vance
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Contributor(s): Alderson, Jim | Parkin, Trevor [ill].
Series: Heinemann guided readers. Intermediate level: London : Heinemann Educational, 1979, Reprinter 1992Edition: First edition Reprinter.Description: 77 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: txt Media type: n Carrier type: ncISBN: 0435272470.Subject(s): Text books for foreign speakers | Libros de texto para hablantes extranjeros | Airplane crash survival -- Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Supervivencia de un accidente de avión -- Australia -- Ficción juvenil | Aboriginal Australians -- Juvenile fiction | Aborígenes australianos -- Ficción juvenil | Australia -- Juvenile fiction | Australia -- Ficción juvenilDDC classification: 823 / Summary: Though on the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, darker themes lie just beneath. Peter’s innocent friendship with the Aboriginal throws into relief Mary’s no longer childish anxiety, and together raise questions about how Aboriginal and Western culture can meet. And in the vivid descriptions of the natural world, we realize that this story—a deep fairy tale in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal—must also be a story about the closeness of death and the power of nature
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Biblioteca Idiomas - Neiva | General | 823 / M367w (Browse shelf) | 8004 | Ej. 1 | Available | 900000018493 |
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Though on the surface Walkabout is an adventure story, darker themes lie just beneath. Peter’s innocent friendship with the Aboriginal throws into relief Mary’s no longer childish anxiety, and together raise questions about how Aboriginal and Western culture can meet. And in the vivid descriptions of the natural world, we realize that this story—a deep fairy tale in the spirit of Adalbert Stifter’s Rock Crystal—must also be a story about the closeness of death and the power of nature
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