Robyn Davidson

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Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes


— Robyn Davidson


#inspirational

And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them


— Robyn Davidson


#inspirational

... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity


— Robyn Davidson


#inspirational

When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others.


— Robyn Davidson


#death

... It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring


— Robyn Davidson


#inspirational

Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.


— Robyn Davidson


#change

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.


— Robyn Davidson


#believe #first #first world #first world war #genre

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.


— Robyn Davidson


#apply #book #make #own #produce

The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.


— Robyn Davidson


#commercial #else #everywhere #except #extraordinarily

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.


— Robyn Davidson


#describe #folks #foreign #go #home






About Robyn Davidson






Did you know about Robyn Davidson?

It included the first interactive story-and-photo CDs made for the general public. Artist Jean Burke remembers Davidson in a painting called The Camel Lady which was produced for a Warakurna Artists' exhibition in Darwin in 2011. Biography
Davidson was born at Stanley Park a cattle station in Miles Queensland the second of two girls.

Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years.