Learn English through Story - Level 6 || English Story || English Podcast

Learn English through Story - Level 6 || English Story || English Podcast
The bush boy walked alone. He was on his walkabout. He had to live in the desert alone for six months. He had to find food and water. He had to kill animals, and find fruit on the trees.
In Australia, when an Aboriginal man-child is sixteen, his tribe sends him out into the Australian bush. A lot of the bush is desert. The bush boy has to live there alone for months. The Aboriginals call this time ‘walkabout’.
This is the story of an Aboriginal boy’s walkabout, but it is also the story of two American children. Mary and Peter are lost in the Australian desert after an aeroplane crash. Their uncle is waiting for them in Adelaide, a long way away. The desert is a strange world for the children. They come from a city, and everything is different there. When they meet the bush boy, he teaches them about the desert. But the desert isn’t their only problem - there are other problems too. They are having strange feelings. Why is Mary afraid of the bush boy? And why does the bush boy begin to feel sad? There are many questions, but no easy answers. It’s a difficult, dangerous journey for the three children. They learn about the desert, but they learn more about life. And death is never very far away…
James Vance Marshall (Donald Payne) wrote Walkabout, his most well-known book, in 1959. Marshall is the writer of many other books too. You can read them in fifteen different languages, and three are now films. Nicholas Roeg made a famous film of Walkabout in 1971. Marshall lives in Surrey, England, and has four sons and one daughter.
Chapters:
00:00 Chapter one , Lost in the Australian Bush
15:35 Chapter two , A Meeting with a Bush Boy
24:20 Chapter three , Life in the Bush
41:30 Chapter four , The End of the Walkabout
59:22 Chapter five , Out of the Bush
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