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This book, subtitled "A Woman's Journey into Dreamtime Australia," tells the story of Marlo Morgan, a middle-aged, American woman and health care practitioner, who is taken on a physical and spiritual journey through the wilds of Australia. The book's narrative plays out a narrative and thematic pattern similar to those of many other quest narratives, exploring issues relating to humanity's relationship to nature, faith, and to itself.

The narrative begins with a terse, vivid description of how the author's journey starts - how she's picked up at an expensive Australian hotel, driven through intense heat and over rough roads into the Outback; how she's divested of her clothes and possessions, and how she's welcomed temporarily into a tribe of Aborigines who call themselves "The Real People." She is told that she is to be taken on a journey of discovery - of self, and of long forgotten, deeper...
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