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Robyn Davidson (born 6 September 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her book ''Tracks'', about her 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years. == Biography == Robyn Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls. Her mother died by suicide when Davidson was 11, and she was largely raised by her father's unmarried sister, Gillian. She went to a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. She received a music scholarship but did not take it up. In Brisbane, Davidson shared a house with biologists and studied zoology. Later, she went to Sydney and lived a bohemian life as a member of the Push. In 1975, Davidson moved to Alice Springs in an effort to work with camels for a desert trek she was planning. For two years she trained camels and learned how to survive in the harsh desert. She was peripherally involved in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. For some years in the 1980s she was in a relationship with Salman Rushdie, to whom she was introduced by their mutual friend Bruce Chatwin.〔Bruce Chatwin, letter to Ninette Dutton, 1 November 1984, in ''Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin'', ed. Elizabeth Chatwin and Nicholas Shakespeare, p. 395〕 Davidson has moved frequently, and had homes in Sydney, London, and India.〔(Sullivan, Jane (2006) "The wonder of wander", ''The Age'', 7 December 2006 )〕 She currently resides in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia.〔''The Age, GoodWeekend'', 8 Feb 2014. http://www.theage.com.au/national/people/travels-of-the-heart-20140205-3203a.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robyn Davidson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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