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 ...

To the list of greatest real-life adventurers to stand at the center of a great movie, we can now add Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), the intrepid Aussie trekker at the heart of John Curran’s lyrical ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes a movie is worth waiting for. If you know anything about the production of motion pictures you may know that it can take years, sometimes decades, to get a film made. One such Hollywood ...

Author Rick Smolan talks about his book "Inside Tracks," the story of how Robyn Davidson traveled across the Australian outback with only four camels and a dog. Photo: Rick Smolan Japan’s Prime ...