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'No one had talked about fuel; what was the use of talking, anyway? But they all knew that engines which run on fuel have to run out of fuel sometime, and that the Egret just couldn’t keep on going for ever. They seemed to have been sitting in this plane, imprisoned, for days, waiting to die. Gerald just flew on and on as though he wanted to fly away to another world, almost as though he didn’t want to go down, almost as though he didn’t know how to go down.
When the Egret’s pilot dies suddenly mid-flight six teenagers, the only passengers on board, face a terrifying situation. Gerald has had some flying lessons, but he has never flown alone, and he has never landed a plane. Lost and afraid, they fly on as the fuel gauge drops and night closes in. Will they find a clear landing place? Could they land in the sea? If they do somehow land safely how will they find their way back to civilisation?'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Text Publishing edition).
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Prequel to A City Out of Sight.
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- Also braille, sound recording.
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1990
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1981
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— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 233-265) -
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1968
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— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 30 1968; (p. 6-7) -
Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 27 1967; (p. 29-30)
— Review of To the Wild Sky 1967 single work children's fiction
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Untitled
1967
single work
review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 27 1967; (p. 29-30)
— Review of To the Wild Sky 1967 single work children's fiction -
Ivan Southall : Wounding and Regeneration
1981
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Innocence and Experience : Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers 1981; (p. 233-265) -
Always His Own Man : A Brief Account of Ivan Southall's Major Writing
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 39-47) -
The Outback: In Fear of the Bush
1995
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Children's Literature : An Exploration of Genre and Theme 1995; (p. 71-86) -
To the Wild Sky
1968
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 30 1968; (p. 6-7)