Tracks
Oct 2012 · A&C Black
4.4star
85 reviewsreport
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272
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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
'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
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4.4
85 reviews
Steve Chivers
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April 11, 2014
An inspiring adventure as it is something which would sadly be difficult to repeat today due to political and legal red tape. Well told in great detail with many dimensions, ranging from descriptions of the landscape, bonds formed with animals and people, and dealing with personal limitations and changing as a person. Definitely worth reading as a non-fiction account of a lifestyle which will become increasingly rare as people become more and more 'urbanised' and mainstream, written by a breed of person who will similarly become increasingly rare.
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Danny Stewart
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May 28, 2014
I saw the film, ironically, on a flight back from Australia and felt the book would offer more in the way of an understanding of Robyn's motivation and pschye. I wasn,t disappointed. Very open, honest, self critical account of an amazing journey.
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puhi renata
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March 13, 2014
Hadn't finished chapter one when it disappeared having trouble getting it back. I'll have something to say if they charge me and I haven't read it yet
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About the author
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.
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