UNFINISHED WOMAN
Robyn Davidson, Bloomsbury, $34.99
Yes, this is the Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 crossed 2700 kilometres of desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean. She was accompanied only by camels and her dog.
For all the turmoil in these pages, this is a very joyous book. The memoir was supposed to be about her mother. Thankfully, there isn’t much direct contact with the unhappy woman who hanged herself when Davidson was 11; just reflections.
Over the ensuing decades, Davidson took on extraordinary projects, including a year spent with nomads in India. A Rajput prince enabled the adventure, and she was his partner for two decades until he died.
Shrewdly, Davidson postpones to the last chapters the account of her teen years as mistress of the owner of an illegal
