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In 1977, while she was still in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1, 700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. The undertaking would make her world-famous. What sets a young woman off on a path like this - thrilling, but often dangerous and lonely? What kept her walking, and what had she left behind her that meant that she could not look back? In Unfinished Woman, Davidson embarks on another journey int...

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Vivid and vivacious . . . Davidson is as natural a writer as she is an adventurer." -The New Yorker, on TracksA spellbinding memoir exploring time and memory, home and belonging, from the internationally bestselling author of Tracks, "an unforgettably powerful book" (Cheryl Strayed).In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1, 700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. What sets a young ...

After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In this Quarterly Essay, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life. In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature...

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar, the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins, the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora, the Hajj. What could this ritual journeying be but symbolic, idealised versions of the foraging life? By taking to the road we free ourselv...

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A revised, reissued edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1, 700 miles of Australian Outback

It'd been a long time since I claimed some solitude in this blessed landscape, since I've done without lifes little props. Here I have no friend, no dog, no radio, no clock, no phone, no roof, no body pollutants. The clackety-clack of the typewriter travels out into the valley and gets lost in expanses of forest and paperbark swamp. I'm the only soul around. For ten years Robyn Davidson has been travelling light. Across the desert, across Amer...

Entrai in uno spazio, in un tempo, in una dimensione completamente nuovi. Mille anni si comprimevano in un giorno e ogni mio passo durava secoli. Le querce del deserto sospiravano e si chinavano su di me, come se avessero voluto afferrarmi. Le dune andavano e venivano, sempre uguali. Le colline si innalzavano verso il cielo, e poi scivolavano dolcemente in basso. Le nuvole ondeggiavano nel cielo, sparivano, ritornavano di nuovo. E sempre la st...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1, 700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: "I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back." Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her c...

Robyn Davidson verwirklicht mit siebenundzwanzig Jahren einen scheinbar verrückten Traum: die australische Wüste zu durchqueren, begleitet von vier wilden Kamelen und einem Hund. Neun Monate wird es dauern, bis sie schließlich den Indischen Ozean erreicht. Neun Monate in der Wildnis, umgeben von unerträglicher Hitze, giftigen Tieren und einer Landschaft, der die Menschen gleichgültig sind. Doch im Verlauf der Reise gelingt es Robyn, ihr altes ...

Unable to escape the ancestral ghosts that haunt her, Lucy returns home to the Australian rainforest and the loving, eccentric aunt that raised her in order to confront the hauntings of her past.Raised an orphan in the rainforest of North Queensland, Lucy McTavish grew up as a wild child. Independent, intelligent, and bored with her one-teacher school, Lucy would do anything to satisfy her desire for adventure. When she escapes the rainforest ...

An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm An unforgettable memoir from the author of the sensational international bestseller Tracks: the story of a mother and daughter, of love, loss and the pursuit of freedom In 1977, twenty-seven-year-old Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1, 700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling follow...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Robyn Davidson's opens the memoir of her perilous journey across 1, 700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company with the following words: "I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back." Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her c...