Robyn Davidson is an Australian author celebrated for her travel narratives and personal journeys. Her work frequently explores themes of solitude, self-discovery, and profound connections with nature and unfamiliar cultures. Davidson is valued for her raw, introspective style and her talent for capturing the essence of the places she visits. Her writing invites readers on a journey of discovery, both through external landscapes and the internal landscapes of the human spirit.
Alone Across the Outback
Robyn Davidson is a modern-day heir to the adventuring heroines Amelia Earhart, Karen Blixen and Beryl Markham. Her 1,700-mile solo journey across the Australian outback was a cover story in National Geographic, and her account of her trek has become a worldwide bestseller. Now the photographer who originally took the pictures for the NG story combines Davidson's text with his award winning photos, most never before published.
The author of Tracks provides a fascinating account of a year spent in northwest India with a wandering tribe called the Rabari, whose traditional migratory route has largely disappeared because of new political boundaries, atomic test sites, and irrigation. 25,000 first printing.
Exploring the theme of spiritual journeys across various religions, the book examines how abandoning settled life leads to a deeper connection with godliness. It highlights practices such as the Hindu Sadhu's renunciation, the pilgrimage to Compostela, and the Buddhist kora, suggesting these rituals symbolize a return to a simpler, more authentic existence. By embarking on these journeys, individuals shed both physical and psychological burdens, ultimately walking towards their true selves and spiritual fulfillment.
Journeys is a provocatively different and shamelessly idiosyncratic travel anthology. In its pages we encounter an astonishing assortment of peopleat leisure, at war, in grand luxury and great discomfort, running away and coming home. Hugely entertaining and wide-ranging, this is an invitation to visit not just the predictable destinations in the travel genre, but to explore the backroads of its varied terrain. Journeys hops over the self-imposed borders of travel writing to reveal our inner and outer worlds in a multitude of captivating voices.
The author recounts her almost two-thousand mile journey across Australia with nothing but a dog and some camels for company.
Nel 1977 Robyn Davidson attraversa a piedi il deserto australiano partendo da Alice Springs fino ad arrivare all’Oceano Indiano, per complessive millesettecento miglia, con la sola compagnia di quattro cammelli e nel suo fedele cane. L'impresa è raccontato “in diretta” da “National Geographic” grazie al fotografo Rick Smolan, che segue la ragazza per tutto il viaggio. Nel 1993 la prima idea di trasposizione cinematografica della storia di Robyn Davidson vide l’attrice Julia Roberts firmare per la parte, ma poi il progetto saltò. Nel 2012 ha preso vita un nuovo progetto con Mia Wasikowska come protagonista. La pellicola intitolata Tracks, è stata poi presentata in concorso al Festival di Venezia e successivamente al Toronto International Film Festival e al London Film Festival. “Entrai in uno spazio, in un tempo, in una dimensione completamente nuovi. Mille anni si comprimevano in un giorno e ogni mio passo durava secoli. Le querce del deserto sospiravano e si chinavano su di me, come se avessero voluto afferrarmi. Le dune andavano e venivano, sempre uguali. Le colline si innalzavano verso il cielo, e poi scivolavano dolcemente in basso. Le nuvole ondeggiavano nel cielo, sparivano, ritornavano di nuovo. E sempre la strada la strada la strada la strada.”
Now a major motion picture starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver'I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back.' So begins Robyn Davidson's perilous journey across 1,700 miles of hostile Australian desert to the sea with only four camels and a dog for company.Enduring sweltering heat, fending off poisonous snakes and lecherous men, chasing her camels when they get skittish and nursing them when they are injured, Davidson emerges as an extraordinarily courageous heroine driven by a love of Australia's landscape, an empathy for its indigenous people, and a willingness to cast away the trappings of her former identity. Tracks is the compelling, candid story of her odyssey of discovery and transformation.WITH A NEW POSTSCRIPT BY THE AUTHOR AND A STUNNING COLOUR PICTURE SECTION
