Robyn Davidson

Robyn Davidson is the author, main character, and narrator of "Tracks." Robyn considers herself to be an ordinary, suburban woman, who grew up in Queensland, Australia, going to boarding schools. Some would see her as foolhardy, since she plunges herself into her plan to take camels across the desert, with no resources or knowledge about how to do it. Whether or not she takes foolish risks, there is no denying that she is tenacious, and through her transformative journey, she learns that she can accomplish anything, if she is just willing to see it through to the end. Robyn clearly has a strong work ethic, and she works herself to exhaustion for two years, suffering abuse in order to learn about camels. She ends up understanding them deeply, because Robyn tends to relate better to animals, from crows to camels to dogs, than to people. Robyn finds...