Robyn Davidson, Author Viking Books $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-670-84077-9
Inspired by an enchanting encounter with camel herdsmen at a Hindu festival in Pushkar, travel writer Davidson (Tracks) took a magazine assignment to accompany the nomads of Rajasthan (a region in western India) on their yearly migration cycle....
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Robyn Davidson, Author Penguin Books $13.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-14-026797-6
An Australian woman journalist follows migrating sheep-and-camel herding nomads in the deserts of Northern India. (Nov.)
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Robyn Davidson, Author Simon & Schuster $19.45 (299p) ISBN 978-0-671-68062-6
An uneven, offbeat and energetic tale, this first novel features Lucy McTavish, an intrepid, impatient orphan sent to live with her eccentric great-aunt in the Australian outback during the 1960s. Her adventures begin in a schoolyard of buzzing...
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Robyn Davidson, Author, Rick Smolan, Photographer Addison Wesley Publishing Company $53.33 (223p) ISBN 978-0-201-63216-3
In April 1977, Robyn Davidson set out with four camels and a dog to cross the deserts of Western Australia--1700 miles from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. Her sponsor, National Geographic , arranged for photographer Rick Smolan to meet her at...
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Rick Smolen. Sterling, $45 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4549-1294-1
In 1977 Robyn Davidson set off to cross the desolate 1,700 miles of the Australian outback accompanied by only four camels and her dog Diggity. Photographer Smolen (A Day in the Life of America) joined Davidson all various points of her journey to...
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Robyn Davidson. Bloomsbury, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-62040-162-0
Australian travel writer Davidson (Tracks) excavates her childhood, romantic life, and family traumas in this raw and thorny memoir. She begins with a recollection of her mother’s 1961 suicide and the fight the two got into that day, before doubling
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