Open Road Media Announces Publication of Robyn Davidson’s International Bestseller, Tracks

 
OPEN ROAD MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF ROBYN DAVIDSON’S INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, TRACKS, AS AN OPEN ROAD MEDIA ICONIC EBOOK
 
US Film Rights Acquired by the Weinstein Company

(New York—September 11, 2013)—Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it is the digital publisher of Robyn Davidson’s international bestseller, Tracks. Open Road is publishing the memoir as part of its Iconic Ebooks imprint, under which Tracks will join titles including Beryl Markham’s West with the Night and James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small. The ebook edition of Tracks will go on sale October 22, 2013. Open Road will also publish Davidson’s memoir Desert Places, an account of her travels with nomads in India.

Tracks tells the story of one woman’s solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian outback. The New Yorker has described the book as “vivid and vivacious,” saying Davidson is “as natural a writer as she is an adventurer.”

Tina Pohlman, Open Road’s Publisher said: “It is always a joy to publish a book you love, and Robyn Davidson’s riveting and transcendent travel memoir Tracks is one of those books. We are so excited about the opportunity to bring this beloved backlist work to readers as an ebook.”

US rights to the film adaptation, directed by John Curran, starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver, and produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The King’s Speech), were recently acquired by the Weinstein Company. The film is currently screening at the Toronto International Film Festival and has received rave reviews at the Venice Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival. Says the Hollywood Reporter, “Alternately haunting, inspiring and dreamily meditative, this is a visually majestic film of transfixing moods and textures.”

“There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns.” For Robyn Davidson, one of these moments comes at age twenty-seven in Alice Springs, a dodgy town at the frontier of the vast Australian desert. Davidson is intent on walking the 1,700 miles of desolate landscape between Alice Springs and the Indian Ocean, a personal pilgrimage with her dog—and four camels. Tracks is the beautifully written, compelling true story of the author’s journey and the love/hate relationships she develops along the way: with the Red Centre of Australia; with aboriginal culture; with a handsome photographer; and especially with her lovable and cranky camels, Bub, Dookie, Goliath, and Zeleika.

Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland, Australia. She went to Sydney in the late sixties, then spent time studying in Brisbane before moving to Alice Springs, where the events of this book begin. Since then, she has traveled extensively, living in London, New York, and India. In the early 1990s, she migrated with nomads in northwestern India and wrote about her experiences in the critically acclaimed travel memoir Desert Places. She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas.