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 ...

"Tracks" is a gorgeous movie, a quiet wonder about a young woman's solo trek across 1,700 miles of Australian desert, accompanied only by a dog and four camels. It moved in and out of area theaters ...

Update, 1/19/2015: Thanks in part to TUAW readers, INSIDE TRACKS is now available on Amazon where it has been featured as the #1 solo travel book. You can purchase the book here. In addition, Smolen ...

If you walk away from Robyn Davidson’s book thinking: amazing story, but there is no way I could ever do that, you’re not alone — I thought the exact same thing. Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across ...

Desert Places, by Robyn Davidson (Viking Press). Hardcover, $23.95. IN HIS JOURNAL, the psychologist William James records that he once met the great mythographer Sir James Frazer, whose Golden Bough ...

Mia Wasikowska gives a fine, flinty performance in this beautifully rendered adaptation of Robyn Davidson's international bestseller. Over the course of his four previous features (“Praise,” “We Don’t ...