Just finished a book by the explorer and traveller Robyn Davidson. Looking back over thirty years since she walked half across Australia with her dog and 3 camels she writes of that adventure

‘The past caves away and dissolves behind us, leaving a few clues with which we try to reconstruct it. Hopeless task. History lives in the present’.

Tracks: One woman’s journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback. 2013, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc