Robyn Davidson | Granta Magazine

Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson was born in Queensland, Australia and now lives between London and India. Specializing in nomadic lifestyles, her works include Tracks, Desert Places, Traveling Light, The Picador Book of Journeys, and No Fixed Address. Her first piece for Granta was ‘Marrying Eddie’ in issue 70.

Robyn Davidson on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

The First Sense

Robyn Davidson

‘Hearing, they say, is the first of the senses we develop in the womb.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Against Travel Writing

Robyn Davidson

’Shortly after its publication in 1980 I was surprised to learn that I had written a travel book’.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Marrying Eddie

Robyn Davidson

‘By the end of our journey together we had signally failed to understand each other, yet an unlikely, even unprecedented connection had formed.’

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