Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson was born in Miles, Queensland in 6th September 1950 and went to a girls' boarding school. She moved to Alice Springs in the 1970s.

After her exploration of the Northern Territory and Western Australia, with her dog Diggity, and some camels, she wrote a book about it called "Tracks". The book had photos in it by Rick Smolan, who came on the trip because he had an assignment for National Geographic. Later he made it into a CD-Rom called From Alice to Ocean. The exploration took 1700 miles.

In 1998, she wrote another book called Desert Places which is about a nomadic tribe in India (the Rabari). She also had a relationship with a man from that region. This book was also lavishly illustrated.