Robyn Davidson - Biography

Biography

Davidson was born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, the second of two girls. Her mother committed suicide when Davidson was 11, and she was largely raised by her father's unmarried sister, Gillian. She went to a girls' boarding school in Brisbane. She received a music scholarship but did not take it up. In Brisbane, Davidson shared a house with radical biologists and studied zoology. Later, she went to Sydney and lived a bohemian kind of life as a member of the Push.

In the 1970s, Davidson moved to Alice Springs in an effort to work with camels for a desert trek she was planning. For two years she trained camels and learned how to survive in the harsh desert. She was peripherally involved in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement.

Davidson has had homes in Sydney, London, and India.