Tracks
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780394514734 (0394514734)
Publish date: January 1st 1980
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Environment,
Nature,
Biography Memoir,
Animals,
Australia
This is a marvelous little book. It is at once, inspiring, scary, and thoughtful. For me, it has earned a place beside Wild (Cheryl Strayed) and The Camino (Shirley MacLaine) among my favorite works of personal enlightenment found through the seeker’s journey. It is distinctive, however, in being gr...
A magical, life-changing book.
At the age of twenty-five, the author got the wild idea that she wanted to travel solo with camels across the Australian Outback. She moved from Brisbane to Alice Springs where she spent two years learning how to handle camels, figuring out how to obtain camels of her own, and otherwise preparing h...
Tracks has been sitting on my TBR mountain for over a year; I finally decided to start it yesterday when a book, From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback, arrived from the library. From Alice is compose...