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I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Robyn Davidson

I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.

Tags: travel, myself, see, writer

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

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

Tags: travel, literature, rich, commercial

About Author
Robyn Davidson is an Australian writer best known for her 1980 book Tracks, about her 2,700 km (1,700 miles) trek across the deserts of Western Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned 40 years. Her memoir, Unfinished Woman was published in late 2023.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Robyn Davidson

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Tags: adventure, inspirational, survival

I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Robyn Davidson

I don't want to be bored I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Tags: want, bored, someone

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Robyn Davidson

I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Tags: love, desert, sense

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Robyn Davidson

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Tags: partner, complicated, never

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea o...

Robyn Davidson

The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea o...

Tags: mistakes, words, idea

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past t...

Robyn Davidson

In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu sadhu, the pilgrims of Compostela walking past t...

Tags: life, past, walking

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Robyn Davidson

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Tags: road, walk, free

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life th...

Robyn Davidson

I do not mean to say that we should, or could, return to traditional nomadic economies. I do mean to say that there are systems of knowledge and grand poetical schemata derived from the mobile life th...

Tags: life, mad, mean

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Robyn Davidson

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

Tags: truth, writing, truth is

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

Robyn Davidson

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

Tags: people, view, environment