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A Tasmanian boy whose grandfather died in the Vietnam War visits the Cu Chi tunnels in Vietnam, from which the Viet Cong conducted some of their campaign. On the tour, he meets up with a Vietnamese-Australian girl and an American man, both of whom have their own connections to the tunnels.
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This work is affiliated with the AustLit subset Asian-Australian Children's Literature and Publishing because it has an Asian setting and references to Vietnam.
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On Travel, Lifelong Students, and Asking 'What If?'
2005
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— Appears in: Access , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; Tolbert discusses the origins of many of his works, and how they all began with a 'what if' question. Includes a discussion of works-in-progress that later became the short stories 'Surfing for Wayan,' 'Summits,' and 'Tunnelling Cu Chi.'
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On Travel, Lifelong Students, and Asking 'What If?'
2005
single work
essay
— Appears in: Access , vol. 19 no. 1 2005; Tolbert discusses the origins of many of his works, and how they all began with a 'what if' question. Includes a discussion of works-in-progress that later became the short stories 'Surfing for Wayan,' 'Summits,' and 'Tunnelling Cu Chi.'
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Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon),
cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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