Tracks (Movie Tie-in Edition): A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback (Vintage Departures), 9781101872451, Paperback, Media Tie In, Reprint

from Pferdina

Robyn went to Alice Springs, worked for two years to afford three camels, then walked with them across the desert alone. What was she doing before that? Why did this seem like the best plan? What happened to her afterwards? We don't find out. I read this book after seeing the film and I liked bot...

from jayne_charles

I don't often read factual books, but this account of a woman trekking across Australia on foot was fascinating. It is funny and sad by turns - from accounts of the author shovelling poo in the early chapters, to the no nonsense way she deals with 'running out of meds', to the incident with the d...

from PDCRead

Australia is a big country. A very big country. And a lot of it is hostile, unforgiving desert. So to set out to travel across half of the country from the centre to the sea, with a dog and four camels is a monumental achievement for Robyn Davidson. Not only is this a tough journey in a physical ...

from rainpebble

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback by Robyn Davidson; (3 1/2*) I found this memoir to be a wonderful tale of a very courageous young woman's phenomenal adventure across 1700 miles of Australian desert. Davidson wrote with a great balance of her journey, both the p...

from msjoanna

A lovely travelogue about a crazy journey across Australia with camels. The author, age 27 at the time, decided that her life was going nowhere and wouldn't it be fun to get some camels (about which she knew nothing) and travel with them across the Australian outback (mostly to places she'd never...