To The Wild Sky
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the pilot of a small aircraft dies mid-flight, six children are left alone in the cockpit, hurtling toward an unknown fate over the vast and unforgiving Australian wilderness in Ivan Southall's gripping survival classic, To the Wild Sky. With no adult to guide them and the coast of Australia far behind, the children must navigate not only the failing plane but the fractures forming between them — fear, authority, and desperation colliding at thirty thousand feet. The novel opens with breathtaking immediacy, plunging the reader into a crisis that refuses to relent, as each character's personality is tested against the raw indifference of nature. Southall, one of Australia's most celebrated authors of children's literature, crafts a story that transcends its adventure premise to become a profound meditation on leadership, resilience, and the terrifying beauty of the unknown. His prose is taut and psychologically sharp, capturing the interior worlds of young people with rare authenticity and empathy. Winner of the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, To the Wild Sky remains a landmark of its genre — and the question of whether these children will survive, or what survival might even cost them, lingers long after the final page.
Author: Ivan Southall
Format: Paperback
Genre: Childrens fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
When the pilot of a small aircraft dies mid-flight, six children are left alone in the cockpit, hurtling toward an unknown fate over the vast and unforgiving Australian wilderness in Ivan Southall's gripping survival classic, To the Wild Sky. With no adult to guide them and the coast of Australia far behind, the children must navigate not only the failing plane but the fractures forming between them — fear, authority, and desperation colliding at thirty thousand feet. The novel opens with breathtaking immediacy, plunging the reader into a crisis that refuses to relent, as each character's personality is tested against the raw indifference of nature. Southall, one of Australia's most celebrated authors of children's literature, crafts a story that transcends its adventure premise to become a profound meditation on leadership, resilience, and the terrifying beauty of the unknown. His prose is taut and psychologically sharp, capturing the interior worlds of young people with rare authenticity and empathy. Winner of the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, To the Wild Sky remains a landmark of its genre — and the question of whether these children will survive, or what survival might even cost them, lingers long after the final page.