Desert Places - Softcover

Davidson, Robyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140267972 ISBN 13: 9780140267976

Publisher: Penguin, 1997

Synopsis

In 1992 Robyn Davidson traveled through a year's migratory cycle with the Rabari, pastoral nomads of northwest India, whose grazing lands and trading and pilgrimage routes are quickly being destroyed by new political boundaries, atomic test sites, and irrigation. Sleeping among five thousand sheep and surviving on goat's milk, flatbread, and parasite-infested water in a landscape of misery and haunting loveliness, she endured exhaustion, malnutrition and disease. But she gained an understanding and the trust of a fiercely courageous people with a disappearing way of life.Displaying a writer's acute eye for detail and a traveler's keen appreciation for the beauty to be found in the earth's most desolate landscapes, Davidson explores with ruthless honesty her own desert places even as she immortalizes these "keepers of the way" and a culture about to die. Fans of Bruce Chatwin, Peter Mathiessen, and Mary Morris will find themselves enthralled by the passion and beauty of this account by a woman traveler who "may be one of the great adventurers of our time" (The Boston Globe).

About this title

About the Author:

Robyn Davidson lives in London E2. She has also written Ancestors, a collection of essays entitled Travelling Light and Tracks, an account of her 1,700 mile journey across Australia with camels, which won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140267972
• ISBN 13: 9780140267976
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288