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When the author set out to travel with the Rabari, a tribe of nomads, her mind was filled with romantic images of the sunset and sand dunes. However, the reality was very different. This book tells how she was forced to tolerate being stoned, endure sickness and drink worm-infested water.
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As Robyn Davidson writes in Desert Places, the Thar, a 230,000-square-mile expanse of formidably dry country in northwestern India, is a harsh land of "granite outcroppings, naked but for a few gullies of monsoon forest or a single, white-painted elephant stationed on a summit eternally surveying the farmlands below." Among the people who populate the Thar are the Rabari, who are quickly becoming modernized and dispossessed, wanderers on the fringes of urban civilization, people who are at home nowhere. After making a false start as a book of adventure travel, Desert Places becomes a work of cultural ecology and of amateur anthropology, reporting on the final days of a traditional nomadic culture once utterly at home in an inhospitable land.
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Robyn Davidson is the author of Tracks?an account of her journey through Aboriginal land in the Australian desert?and a novel, Ancestors.
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 014015762X
- ISBN 13 9780140157628
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- Number of pages288
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