![]() Sometimes Robyn was so lonely she would talk to herself. Clouds rolled in and clouds rolled out and always the road, always the road, always the road, always the road." The desert oaks sighed and bent down to me, as if trying to grab at me. A thousand years fitted into a day and aeons into each step. On her long long long journey, Robyn experienced every human emotion possible. ![]() It is to discover the continent's mythological crucible, the great outback, the never-never, that decrepit desert land of infinite blue air and limitless power." To enter that country is to be choked with dust, suffocated by waves of thrumming heat, and driven to distraction by the ubiquitous Australian fly it is to be amazed by space and humbled by the most ancient, bony, awesome landscape on the face of the earth. And it was perhaps the cold desolate lovelessness of the place that threw into sharp focus the magical and life-affirming qualities of the country around it. "The ranch itself was fantastic and uncanny perched out there in the middle of the oldest rocks in the world. Check out this description of an Australian ranch where she stayed to learn about camels: Robyn took an amazing journey, but she is also a gifted writer and storyteller. Robyn Davidson on the cover of National Geographic, May 1978 ![]() Later in the journey, the dog gets sick and dies. She had a National Geographic photographer with her for a few days, and an Aboriginal guide a few other days, but most of the time it was just her, the camels and her dog. Yeah, she's a badass who walked 1,700 miles of the Outback, mostly by herself. Robyn Davidson decided to get some camels, train them, and then walk across the Australian Outback. This is an amazing outdoor adventure/travelogue/girl power memoir.
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