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Robyn Davidson OAM is an Australian writer best known for her 1980 book Tracks, about her 2,700 km (1,700 miles) trek across the deserts of Western Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned 40 years.
Jul 16, 2020 · Robyn Davidson was on a nine-month solo journey across the Australian desert. Aged just 27, she was accompanied only by four camels and her dog, Diggity. The only thing tying...
Robyn Davidson’s memoir is an enthralling and miraculous story. Simon Schluter. Her mother, a music-loving city-dweller, didn’t enjoy life in the country; her father, a war hero with PTSD, did. There was some tension, but perhaps no more or less than any other 1950s family, where there were few roles for women beyond homemaking.
Feb 22, 2024 · At 27, Robyn Davidson trekked through the Australian outback with four camels and a dog. In her long-awaited memoir we come closer to knowing why she made this journey.
Dec 8, 2023 · Robyn Davidson, the Aussie woman who trekked solo across the desert, opens up about how her mother's suicide shaped the woman she became.
Dec 8, 2017 · It has been four decades since Robyn Davidson embarked on her trek across the harsh Australian desert with her dog Diggity and four camels in tow — a 2,700-kilometre journey that spawned her bestselling memoir Tracks. The first night she arrived in Alice Springs in 1975, an Aboriginal man was found in a gutter painted white.
Oct 16, 2023 · Robyn Davidson with one of her camels on her epic trek across the Australian desert. Photograph: pdil/Rick Smolan. In her 20s, Davidson trekked 1,700 miles through the Australian...
Dec 7, 2023 · Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She moved to Sydney in the late Sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs to prepare for her journey across the Australian desert.
Dec 5, 2023 · Ten years ago, Robyn Davidson told a Sydney Morning Herald reporter in her native Australia that she had been struggling for several years with a memoir prompted mainly by complex childhood recollections of her mother, who died by suicide at 46.
Jan 1, 2001 · Robyn Davidson was a young woman who had a dream of traveling with camels through the bush of the northern and western areas of Australia. She arrived in Alice Springs with her dog and six dollars, hoping to find work and learn to train camels.
