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Availability Label | Location | Shelfmark | Availability | Reservations |
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Central Branch | Biography David-D | On loan until: 17/May/24 |
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Pittsburgh Branch | Biography David-D | On loan until: 01/May/24 |
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Title Statement | Unfinished woman: a memoir / Robyn Davidson. |
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Author | Davidson, Robyn, 1950- |
Publication | New York: Bloomsbury Publishing,2023. |
Extent of Item | xiv, 283 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781620401620 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr07095015 |
Summary | In 1977, while she was in her twenties, Robyn Davidson set off with a dog and four camels to cross 1,700 miles of Australian desert to the sea. A life of almost constant travelling followed-from the Outback to Sydney's underworld; from sixties street life, to the London literary scene; from migrating with nomads in India and Tibet, to marrying an Indian prince. The only territory she avoided was the past. In Unfinished Woman, she ventures into that unknown, unearthing an ache for a lost but barely remembered mother and an unmet desire to feel at home in her freedom. Adventurous but guarded, fearless yet broken, Davidson asks: how can we live with pain and uncertainty, to find beauty in the strangeness of being? Unfinished Woman is a stunning literary achievement, inviting readers in as a world-famous wandering spirit is, for the first time, laid truly bare. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Authors, Australian--Biography--20th century |
Travel writers--Biography--Australia | |
Women authors, Australian--Biography--20th century | |
By Name | Davidson, Robyn,1950- |
Davidson, Robyn,1950---Childhood and youth | |
Davidson, Robyn,1950---Travel | |
By Genre | Biographies |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives | |
Travel writing |