A revised, reissued edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback
Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She went to Sydney in the late sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs where the events of this book began. Since then she has travelled extensively and has lived in London, New York and India. In the early 1990s she migrated with and wrote about nomads in north west India. She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas.
A strong, salty fresh book by an original and individual young
woman ... This will rank among the best of the books of exploration
and travel and, like them, is a record of self-discovery and
self-proving
*Doris Lessing*
An absorbing record of human endeavour and courage, a vivid picture
of an extraordinary country by a perceptive and sensitive observer,
and the story of an inner journey, of "shedding burdens"
*Sydney Morning Herald*
It gets to the heart of landscape and solitude and becomes a
venture to the interior of more than one dimension as its author
approaches the hinterland of her own thorny psyche
*Observer*
As eccentric, undisciplined, flashily brilliant and pig-headed as
its author ... Ms Davidson is a born writer, her book deeply
moving
*Daily Telegraph*
Vivid and vivacious ... Davidson is as natural a writer as she is
an adventurer
*New Yorker*
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