Desert Places, by Robyn Davidson

“In 1978, Robyn Davidson visited, quite by chance, a camel fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan. There she found herself among the pastoral nomads of north-west India, thousands of whom had congregated to buy and sell their animals. She was on her way to England to write her celebrated book, Tracks, about traversing the deserts of Australia through tribal Aboriginal land – a journey that left her obsessed with nomadism, a way of life that has been with us since our origins but was about to disappear.”

Her challenging and difficult journey with the Rabari people finally commenced in 1992. This is the story of that journey. First edition, 1996, published by Penguin Books Australia, hardcover with intact dust jacket, with two 8-page sections of colour photographs, 280 pages, very good condition.