Burke's father, Mr Eddie, had trekked through Ngaanyatjarra lands with Robyn, guiding her to water sources along the way. Artist Jean Burke remembers Robyn in a painting called The Camel Lady which was produced for a Warakurna Artists' exhibition in Darwin in 2011. Robyn's desert journey is remembered by Aboriginal Australians she encountered along the way.
It has been suggested that one of the reasons Tracks was so popular, particularly with women, is that Robyn "places herself in the wilderness of her own accord, rather than as an adjunct to a man". It included the first interactive story-and-photo CDs made for the general public. In the early nineties, Smolan published his pictures of the trip in From Alice to Ocean. Tracks won the inaugural Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1980 and the Blind Society Award. She travelled to London and lived with Doris Lessing while writing Tracks. The National Geographic article was published in 1978 and attracted so much interest that Robyn decided to write a book about the experience.
Smolan, with whom she had an "on-again off-again" romantic relationship during the trip, drove out to meet her three times during the nine-month journey. Having met the photographer Rick Smolan in Alice Springs, she insisted that he be the photographer for the journey. She had no intention of writing about the journey, but eventually agreed to write an article for the magazine National Geographic. In 1977, Robyn set off from Alice Springs for the west coast, with a dog and four camels, Dookie (a large male), Bub (a smaller male), Zeleika (a wild female), and Goliath (Zeleika's offspring). As of 2014, she resides in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. Robyn has moved frequently, and had homes in Sydney, London, and India. She was peripherally involved in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement.įor some years in the 1980s she was in a relationship with the Indian novelist, Salman Rushdie, to whom she was introduced by their mutual friend Bruce Chatwin. For two years she trained camels and learned how to survive in the harsh desert. In 1975, Robyn moved to Alice Springs in an effort to work with camels for a desert trek she was planning. In 1968, aged 18, she went to Sydney and later lived a bohemian life in a Sydney Push household at Paddington, while working as a card-dealer at an illegal gambling house. In Brisbane, Robyn shared a house with biologists and studied zoology. She received a music scholarship but did not take it up. She went to a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. When Robyn was 11 years old, her mother committed suicide, and she was largely raised by her unmarried aunt (her father's sister), Gillian.
Robyn Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls.
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