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From Australia, writer and adventurer ROBYN DAVIDSON

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Tracks is an account of a 1,700 mile journey across Australia with four camels and a dog.
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Robyn Davidson, writer and adventurer
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Tracks won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.
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2: From Australia, writer and adventurer ROBYN DAVIDSON. Her book "Tracks" (paperback, Vintage) was the account of her 1,700 mile journey across Australia with four camels and a dog. It won the 1980 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Her next adventure was a trip across the Indian desert with nomads, which she chronicled in the new book "Desert Places." (Viking). (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES AFTER THE 1:00 FL

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