Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia, and is the author of Tracks, the extraordinary account of her 1,700-mile journey across Australia with four camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and became a film in 2013. She has written extensively for National Geographic and other magazines, and is also the author of Desert Places, the novel Ancestors, and the essay collection Travelling Light. Ms. Davidson lives in London, India, and Australia.
“Beautiful, thrilling and ferociously brave, Robyn Davidson’s
timeless story of her astonishing journey gripped me from the first
page to the last. Tracks is an unforgettably powerful book.”
—Cheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild
“Vivid and vivacious. . . . Davidson is as natural a writer as she
is an adventurer.”
—The New Yorker
“Engrossing. . . . Lyrical and salty. . . . Candid. . . . Best in
her accounts of her days alone in the desert and what they did to
and for her. . . . Her states of mind . . . veer between feelings
of being at one with the cosmos and feelings of being utterly
crazy.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Saucy and unsparing. . . . A strong book, the kind that clings to
your back after you’ve read it.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“Every bit as witty as her camels—and a first-rate writer
besides.”
—Newsweek
“What continues to resonate with readers isRobyn Davidson’s honest
introspection throughout the journey. It prompts the reader to ask
herself, ‘Would I do this?’ and ‘Could I do
this?’”
—A Traveler’s Library
“The integrity of this articulate and impassioned account is
evident in the fact that Robyn Davidson does not find glib
solutions to inner or outer conflicts. Like her camel companions,
she seems temperamental, insatiable, and slightly crazy, but also
determined, direct, vulnerable, and splendid.”
—500 Great Books by Women
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