Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
Walkabout by James Vance Marshall is a book about the change of two young children from North Carolina named Peter and his older sister Mary. Peter and Mary are on their way to Adelaide in Australia and their plane crashes in the middle of the Australian desert and are the only two survivors. They come across an Australian Aborigine in whom they call "bushboy". Bushboy teaches Mary and Peter how to survive in the desert by showing them easy ways to find food, for example, catch fish, he shows them how to get cold water from the bottom of ponds, and how to make a fire. From the sudden adaptation of climate, Peter catches a cold. The Bushboy tells Mary and Peter that there is a place where food and water residdes just over the hills. Bushboy has never experienced a cold before because he lives in the desert. Bushboy catches the cold and his body is not able to handle it and he dies. Mary and Peter head for the plentiful land and meet Bushboy's people and they tell Mary and Peter where the city is.
Walkabout shows mostly advantages for hunter-gatherer societies because they know how to survive in the wild. People in later agrarian societies would probably not be as good survivors that hunter-gatherers.
Walkabout shows mostly advantages for hunter-gatherer societies because they know how to survive in the wild. People in later agrarian societies would probably not be as good survivors that hunter-gatherers.