The year was 1977. Robyn Davidson was on a nine-month solo journey across the Australian desert. Aged just 27, she was accompanied only by four camels and her dog, Diggity. The only thing tying ...

In the 1970s, Robyn Davidson walked into the deserted outback of Australia with four camels and a dog; 1,700 miles later she emerged at the Indian Ocean. "Tracks," published in 1980, was the account ...

Rolley Mintuma and Mia Wasikowska in "Tracks." There's a striking new movie based on a popular memoir about a young woman going on a solo adventure through rough terrain, and it's not "Wild."In a ...

In 1977, a young woman named Robyn Davidson left the remote town of Alice Springs, Australia, accompanied only by four camels and her beloved dog Diggity. Nine months later, she arrived on the West ...

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 ...

Mia Wasikowska’s face, body language, and vocal delivery are in perfect harmony with the countryside that surrounds her in “Tracks”: human figure and landscape are equally mysterious and unforgiving.

When Robyn Davidson was 26 years old, she decided to walk 1,700 miles across the harsh terrain of wild Australia. It was 1977, and Davidson spent nine months traveling from Alice Springs in central ...

(AP) Robyn Davidson’s 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) foot journey across Australia accompanied by four camels and a black dog has never really ended. Her 1977 trek catapulted Davidson into an unexpected ...