Most Popular Books by James Vance Marshall

Mary and her brother, survivors of an aircrash in the Australian desert, face death from exhaustion and starvation. They meet an Aboriginal boy who helps them survive but the inevitable clash of cultures leads to a tragic misunderstanding.

A brother and sister are lost in the Australian desert after an air crash and survive only with the help of an Aboriginal boy until there is a misunder-standing and they are tragically separated.

The only survivor of a secret World War II British naval mission to Antarctica struggles for life and sanity in this harshest of environments. This is a paean to the natural beauty of Antarctica as well as a memorable story of courage, of the triumph of the human spirit, and of a transcendent love. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

How did turtle get his shell? Why do young koalas cling to their mothers'' backs? How was the mighty Murray River created? Ten witty retellings of legends from the Yorta Yorta people to delight readers of all ages.

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."