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Robyn Davidson (born 6 September 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her book Tracks, about a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia...
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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 the last Quarterly Essay for 2...
Robyn Davidson
Kindle Edition
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Quarterly Essay
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Robyn Davidson's fascinating book is an anthology in its truest sense - it is a treasure trove of writing that challenges what we define as travel writing: moving effortlessly from Flaubert in Egypt to Elizabeth David in the Mediterranean by way of runaway slaves; the moon; hallucinating in Las Vega...
Robyn Davidson
Paperback
200
Picador
033036863X
9780330368636
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In 1992 Robyn Davidson traveled through a year's migratory cycle with the Rabari, pastoral nomads of northwest India, whose grazing lands and trading and pilgrimage routes are quickly being destroyed by new political boundaries, atomic test sites, and irrigation. Sleeping among five thousand sheep a...
Robyn Davidson
Paperback
288
Penguin Books
0140267972
9780140267976
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A cult classic with an ever-growing audience, Tracks is the brilliantly written and frequently hilarious account of a young woman's odyssey through the deserts of Australia, with no one but her dog and four camels as companions. Davidson emerges as a heroine who combines extraordinary courage with e...
Robyn Davidson
Paperback
256
Vintage
0679762876
9780679762874
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The Tracks Study Guide contains comprehensive summaries and analysis of the book. This study guide includes a detailed Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Character Descriptions, Objects/Places, Themes, Styles, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion on Tracks by Robyn Davidson.
BookRags
Kindle Edition
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Excerpts from Tracks, the author's best-selling account of her heroic journey across Australia, are complemented by photographs by the creator of the Day in the Life of Australia and a CD containing sounds of the outback. 50,000 first printing.
Robyn Davidson, Rick Smolan
Hardcover
223
Addison-Wesley
0201632160
9780201632163
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Story of a twenty-seven year old woman who set off to cross the rugged bush of her native Australia, accopanied only by four camels and a dog. The author Robyn Davidson first wrote of her experiance in a cover story for The National Geographic.
Robyn Davidson
Hardcover
256
Pantheon Books
0394514734
9780394514734
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Lucy has returned to the isolated house in the Australian rainforest where she was raised by the ferociously loving and eccentric Aunt Laura. She had yearned for the fabulous world that lay beyond the jungle, but even there she could not escape the ancestral ghosts and so returns to confront them.
Robyn Davidson
Paperback
304
Penguin Books
014014529X
9780140145298
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