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Unfinished Woman
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
| Author:
Robyn Davidson
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author:
Robyn Davidson
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In 1977, while she was still in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four
camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. The undertaking would
make her worldfamous. What sets a young woman off on a path like this – thrilling, but
often dangerous and lonely? What kept her walking, and what had she left behind her
that meant that she could not look back?
In Unfinished Woman, Davidson embarks on another journey into uncharted territory: the
past. In mesmerising prose, she conjures her childhood in post-war Australia: first a
lone cattle station fringed with barbed wire, then a house called Malabah – where her
father sheared sheep by hand while his daughters stamped it out in the wool press,
where Robyn’s sister rode her horse to school, where green carpet snakes winked
down from the ceiling rafters and where the house rippled with the sounds of her
mother’s pianoplaying. And then the deadening suburbia of Moreton – where Robyn
returned home from school one afternoon to find that her mother’s music had stopped
forever.
Spanning Australian deserts to Indian mountain ranges, sleeping rough in Sydney to the
literary high tables of London, Unfinished Woman is the story of a mother and daughter
through time: of their despair and survival, and their unbreakable bond with a land and a
landscape that would define, scar and heal them. Angry, brave, sad and always
beautiful, it is a powerful story of adventure, exile, homecoming – and a life lived in
uncompromising pursuit of freedom.
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In 1977, while she was still in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four
camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. The undertaking would
make her worldfamous. What sets a young woman off on a path like this – thrilling, but
often dangerous and lonely? What kept her walking, and what had she left behind her
that meant that she could not look back?
In Unfinished Woman, Davidson embarks on another journey into uncharted territory: the
past. In mesmerising prose, she conjures her childhood in post-war Australia: first a
lone cattle station fringed with barbed wire, then a house called Malabah – where her
father sheared sheep by hand while his daughters stamped it out in the wool press,
where Robyn’s sister rode her horse to school, where green carpet snakes winked
down from the ceiling rafters and where the house rippled with the sounds of her
mother’s pianoplaying. And then the deadening suburbia of Moreton – where Robyn
returned home from school one afternoon to find that her mother’s music had stopped
forever.
Spanning Australian deserts to Indian mountain ranges, sleeping rough in Sydney to the
literary high tables of London, Unfinished Woman is the story of a mother and daughter
through time: of their despair and survival, and their unbreakable bond with a land and a
landscape that would define, scar and heal them. Angry, brave, sad and always
beautiful, it is a powerful story of adventure, exile, homecoming – and a life lived in
uncompromising pursuit of freedom.
About Author
Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland. She went to Sydney in the
late sixties, then returned to study in Brisbane before going to Alice Springs where the
events of this book began. Since then she has travelled extensively and has lived in
London, New York and India. In the early 1990s she migrated with and wrote about
nomads in north west India. She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several
months a year in the Indian Himalayas.
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