TRACKS – Review by MaryAnn Johanson

“I just wanna be by myself.” Even in the free-spirited era of hippie adventurism that was the 1970s, people seemed not to be able to quite comprehend that it was a woman saying this. Or that she proposed to be by herself by walking solo 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. If Robyn Davidson were a man, they may have thought him odd and shrugged it off. But no one here seems to know how to cope with a woman craving aloneness and embracing danger to find it. So there’s an extra level of powerfully satisfying triumph to be found in Tracks, based on the true story of Davidson’s physical and spiritual journey. Read more>>