TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matterson,Sophie
TI  - The crossing: a memoir of love, adventure and finding your own path 
SN  - 9781761068829
U1  - 919.40463 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Matterson, Sophie.
KW  - Matterson, Sophie
KW  - Camels
KW  - Australia
KW  - Cameleers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Walking
KW  - Adventure and adventurers
KW  - COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
KW  - Self-reliant living
KW  - Resilience (Personality trait)
KW  - Self-actualization (Psychology)
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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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