Desert Places (Paperback: Reprint: 288 pages)
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| Author: | Robyn Davidson |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 288 pages. |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc (11/01/1997) |
| ISBN: | 0140267972 |
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Pro Reviews: Desert Places
Although she can never quite live the Rabari life free from self-consciousness, her attempt to do so lacks nothing in courage or honesty....Davidson earns the right to be frank about what she sees [and] delivers an unromantic and at times brutal account of India's rural poor....'Desert Places' is a personal response to a place and a people, animated with love and hatred, lit by descriptions of beauty and moments of joy.
...Robyn Davidson's direct and emotional narrative forces the reader to live through the rawness of her physical and philosophical quest. Her year-long journey on the migratory cycle makes the reader confront, in a disturbing and challenging way, a difficult problem of our age--how modern civilizations should coexist with civilizations that live in another time....Davidson's chilling portrait of this society being hemmed in from all sides makes for uncomfortable reading.
Publisher Notes: Desert Places
- In 1992 Robyn Davidson traveled through a year's migratory cycle with the Rabari, pastoral nomads of northwest India, whose grazing lands and trading and pilgrimage routes are quickly being destroyed by new political boundaries, atomic test sites, and irrigation. Sleeping among five thousand sheep and surviving on goat's milk, flatbread, and parasite-infested water in a landscape of misery and haunting loveliness, she endured exhaustion, malnutrition and disease. But she gained an understanding and the trust of a fiercely courageous people with a disappearing way of life.
Displaying a writer's acute eye for detail and a traveler's keen appreciation for the beauty to be found in the earth's most desolate landscapes, Davidson explores with ruthless honesty her own desert places even as she immortalizes these "keepers of the way" and a culture about to die. Fans of Bruce Chatwin, Peter Mathiessen, and Mary Morris will find themselves enthralled by the passion and beauty of this account by a woman traveler who "may be one of the great adventurers of our time" (The Boston Globe).
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