I'm gonna rent a couple donkeys and cross the Sahara this July. Maybe they'll make a movie about me.
That's pretty much what
Robyn did. Not only did she succeed, but the CD/book is a modern-day classic.
She cheated - four camels and a dog.
If a "cocky, outspoken, daring and stubborn" person succeeds in one of these "lunatic gestures of independence" then they are smart and well prepared. If they die, then they are stupid and ill prepared. I get it.
It was a trip that began as a pure and (many said) lunatic gesture of independence and quickly turned into an all-out battle of wits against the forces of both nature and civilization. Cocky and outspoken, Robyn Davidson's tale is at once the probing journal of a daring and stubborn woman and a wilderness adventure of the most exhilarating sort.
