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FROM: "Fiction_L Administrator" <fladmin@webrary.org>
REC'D: 2/11/01, 1:08 PM

Our patron remembers it has the word "walkabout " in the title, was
published in the 1990's, the main character is a woman. And she's love to
read it again! Any help appreciated.

Maureen Byrne/Piermont Public Library
Piermont NH

FROM: "christine jeffords" <sevenstars39@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/11/01, 3:04 PM

>From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <fladmin@webrary.org>
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>Subject: Searching for a book set in Australia
>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:06:53 -0600
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>
>Our patron remembers it has the word "walkabout " in the title, was
>published in the 1990's, the main character is a woman. And she's love to
>read it again! Any help appreciated.
>
>Maureen Byrne/Piermont Public Library
>Piermont NH


This may well be one of Aaron Fletcher's Outback series. Titles include
"Outback," "Walkabout," and two or three others which I can't at this moment
recall. People who have read them tell me they're very good.
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FROM: Brett Castleberry <bcc9746@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>
REC'D: 2/11/01, 10:21 PM

It doesn't have "walkabout" in the title, but I wonder if your patron is
thinking of "Mutant Message Down Under," by Marlo Morgan, published in
1995. According to an Amazon.com review, it is a "spellbinding account of
an American doctor's experience on walkabout in Australia."

Brett Castleberry
LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library
Tallahassee, Florida

> Subject: Searching for a book set in Australia
> From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <fladmin@webrary.org>
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:06:53 -0600
>
>
> Our patron remembers it has the word "walkabout " in the title, was
> published in the 1990's, the main character is a woman. And she's love
> to
> read it again! Any help appreciated.
>
> Maureen Byrne/Piermont Public Library
> Piermont NH

FROM: Sarah Nagle <snagle@co.carver.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 11:00 AM

WALKABOUT, by James Vance Marshall, was originally published 1959 as THE
CHILDREN. There was a 1971 rev ed. and a 1971 film starring Jenny Agutter.
Amazon lists a 1984 paperback edition.

FROM: Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 11:21 AM

At 01:06 PM 2/11/01 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Our patron remembers it has the word "walkabout " in the title, was
>published in the 1990's, the main character is a woman. And she's love to
>read it again! Any help appreciated.
>
>Maureen Byrne/Piermont Public Library
>Piermont NH

The James Vance Marshall WALKABOUT is probably the best-known book of
that title, but (a) it was first published well before the 1990s (movie
came out in 1971) and (b) main characters are three youngish children--
two European, one Aboriginal--rather than a woman.

Michaela Roessner has WALKABOUT WOMAN, a Bantam pb from 1988, which is
close to the 1990s; main character is a young Aboriginal woman. It's a
fantasy novel that I've not read.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien@tc.umn.edu

FROM: Barbara Lundt <blundt@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/12/01, 2:09 PM

The book may be Michaela Roessner's Walkabout woman, c1988:

"This engrossing first novel follows Raba, a gifted Native Australian girl,=20
through her
apprenticeship as a wuradilagu, healer, into a necessary
flight into the white-fellas academic
world. The evocation of the Dreamtime is particularly vivid.=20
Highly recommended. "

— The Feminist
Bookstore News
(Marlo Morgan has a book with the same title, but probably not what your
patron is seeking).


At 09:02 PM 2/11/01 +0000, you wrote:

>>From: "Fiction_L Administrator" <fladmin@webrary.org>
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>>To: Fiction_L <fiction_l@maillist.webrary.org>
>>Subject: Searching for a book set in Australia
>>Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 13:06:53 -0600
>>
>>
>>Our patron remembers it has the word "walkabout " in the title, was
>>published in the 1990's, the main character is a woman. And she's love to
>>read it again! Any help appreciated.
>>
>>Maureen Byrne/Piermont Public Library
>>Piermont NH
>
>
>This may well be one of Aaron Fletcher's Outback series. Titles include
>"Outback," "Walkabout," and two or three others which I can't at this
>moment recall. People who have read them tell me they're very good.
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