A strong, salty fresh book by an original and individual young woman...This will rank among the best of the books of exploration and travel and, like them, is a record of self-discovery and self-proving' - Doris Lessing. '
As eccentric, undisciplined, flashily brilliant and pig-headed as its author...Ms Davidson is a born writer, her book deeply moving' - "Daily Telegraph". 'An absorbing record of human endeavour and courage, a vivid picture of an extraordinary country by a perspective and sensitive observer, and the story of an inner journey, of 'shedding burdens" - "Sydney Morning Herald". '
It gets to the heart of landscape and solitude and becomes a venture to the interior of more than one dimension as its author approaches the hinterland of her own thorny psyche' - "Observer".
