The crossing : a memoir of love, adventure and finding your own path / Sophie Matterson.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: xii, 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761068829; 1761068822Subject(s): Matterson, Sophie | Matterson, Sophie -- Travel -- Australia | Camels -- Australia | Cameleers -- Australia -- Biography | Walking -- Australia | Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Biography | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Australia | Self-reliant living | Resilience (Personality trait) | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Australia -- Description and travelGenre/Form: Autobiographies. DDC classification: 919.40463 Summary: In 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterson set out to walk her five camels from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east coast. At a time when most of her friends were getting engaged or starting families, Sophie longed for adventure, independence and purpose. She broke up with her long-term boyfriend, packed all her belongings into saddlebags and trained her wild camels to follow her lead. Her thirteen-month solo crossing was the ultimate test of resilience and self-sufficiency - with each state in various forms of lockdowns, Sophie would often walk for weeks without seeing another soul. She crossed harsh, remote deserts, navigated treacherously beautiful salt lakes, and visited country towns and isolated cattle stations.
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In 2020, at the age of thirty-one, Sophie Matterson set out to walk her five camels from Shark Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east coast. At a time when most of her friends were getting engaged or starting families, Sophie longed for adventure, independence and purpose. She broke up with her long-term boyfriend, packed all her belongings into saddlebags and trained her wild camels to follow her lead. Her thirteen-month solo crossing was the ultimate test of resilience and self-sufficiency - with each state in various forms of lockdowns, Sophie would often walk for weeks without seeing another soul. She crossed harsh, remote deserts, navigated treacherously beautiful salt lakes, and visited country towns and isolated cattle stations.
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