From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback

Photographed By Rick Smolan With Excerpts From Robyn Davidson, Tracks

ISBN 10: 067084764X / ISBN 13: 9780670847648

Published by Ringwood: Viking, 1992

About this Item

27 year old Robyn Davidson trekked across the Australian outback with only her dog & four camels. Smolan then tracked her down to recreate the epic journey! Fine hard cover book/ slight edgewear otherwise near fine dust jacket. Oversized & has additional cost if shipped outside the U.S.

Seller Inventory # 650160

Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Alice to Ocean: Alone Across the Outback
• Publisher: Ringwood: Viking
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067084764X
• ISBN 13: 9780670847648
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st printing of 1st edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Excerpts from Tracks, the author's best-selling account of her heroic journey across Australia, are complemented by photographs by the creator of the Day in the Life of Australia and a CD containing sounds of the outback. 50,000 first printing.

Review

The astounding story of a twenty-seven-year-old Australian woman who set off to cross the desolate outback, accompanied only by four camels and a dog. It was a trip that began as a pure and (many said) lunatic gesture of independence and quickly turned into an all-out battle of wits against the forces of both nature and civilization. Cocky and outspoken, Robyn Davidson's tale is at once the probing journal of a daring and stubborn woman and a wilderness adventure of the most exhilarating sort. Rick Smolan, the photographer, had his own adventure tracking Robyn down to document her trip for National Geographic magazine. The outback of Australia, seen through Rick's cameras and Robyn's words, is an ancient awesome landscape swept by rain, heat and dust and inhabited by all varieties of marauding life, from poisonous snakes and wild bull camels to swarms of tourists clamoring after their newest heroine, the "Camel Lady." When Robyn and her caravan reach their destination six months and 1700 miles of outback later, their arrival marks the end of a true odyssey and an unforgettable book.