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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 .
Walkabout is a 1971 adventure survival film directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil. Edward Bond wrote the screenplay, which is loosely based on the 1959 novel by James Vance Marshall .
The sex scene remained controversial for some years after the film's release. The BBC cut it altogether when Don't Look Now premiered on UK television, causing a flood of complaints from viewers. [ 15 ] [ 39 ] The intimacy of the scene led to rumours that Christie and Sutherland had unsimulated sex which have persisted for years and that ...
The original pictorial segment was initially called "Our Cameraman's Walkabout", then "Australia and the South Pacific in Pictures" (briefly including New Zealand in the title), "Australia in Pictures", "Camera Supplement" and after 1961 a 24-page lift-out full-colour supplement "The Australian Scene" was included annually in the December issue ...
After the book's success, Payne, with the permission of the Marshall family, continued to use the pseudonym for a number of novels, including A River Ran Out of Eden (1962; filmed as The Golden Seal in 1983), and for several other stories set in Australia; A Walk to the Hills of the Dreamtime (1970), and Stories from the Billabong (2008), and ...
The First Walkabout is an Australian children's novel first published in 1954. It tells the story of the very earliest occupation of the continent of Australia by the Negrito people, a group that arrived in Australia before the ancestors of the present-day Aboriginal peoples .
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Grant also wrote for magazines as varied as Walkabout, [25] The New Yorker, Mademoiselle, Playboy, Cleo, The Port Phillip Gazette, [26] The Bulletin, Quadrant, Overland and Meanjin, and was an author of three novels on the theme 'Love in the Asian Century', and of short stories, [26] poetry, [27] and essays including "The Great Pretender at the Bar of Justice," written at the trial of Slobodan ...