Wild by nature : from Siberia to Australia, three years alone in the wilderness on foot / Sarah Marquis.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2016.Description: 259 pages 16 unnumberd pages of plates : colour illustrations, maps, photographs ; 24 cmISBN:- 1760290742
- 9781760290740 :
- Marquis, Sarah, 1972- -- Travel
- Marquis, Sarah, 1972- -- Travel
- Wilderness survival
- Hiking
- Women travelers -- Anecdotes
- Desert survival
- Travel -- Anecdotes
- Biography & True Stories
- Gobi Desert (Mongolia and China) -- Description and travel
- Mongolia -- Description and travel
- China -- Description and travel
- Sibera (Russia) -- Description and travel
- Laos -- Description and travel
- Thailand -- Description and travel
- Australia -- Description and travel
- Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
- 910.4 23
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 910.4 MAR | Available | 060348 |
First published in France as Sauvage pour nature : 3 ans de marche extreme en solidaire de Sibérie en Australie by Éditions Michel Lafon.
Includes bibliography.
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Preparation -- Chapter 2: Mongolia, my beginning -- Chapter 3: Central Mongolia -- Chapter 4: Gobi Desert -- Chapter 5: Gobi Desert - second attempt -- Chapter 6: China -- Chapter 7: Gobi Desert - third attempt -- Chapter 8: Siberia -- Chapter 9: Laos -- Chapter 10: Thailand -- Chapter 11: Northern Australia -- Chapter 12: Southern Australia.
The epic story of one woman's 16,000 kilometre, three year trek from Siberia to Australia.
From National Geographic's Explorer of the Year, 2014, Wild By Nature is the extraordinary story of Sarah Marquis' solo 10,000-mile hike from Siberia to Australia...Relying on hunting and her own wits, Sarah Marquis made it across the Gobi Desert and through fever-haunted jungles, surviving mafia, drug dealers, thieves on horseback who harassed her tent every night for weeks, temperatures from sub zero to scorching, life-threatening wildlife, a dengue fever delirium in the Laos jungle, tropic ringworm in northern Thailand, dehydration, and a life-threatening abscess...Through an incredible journey Wild By Nature explores what it is to adventure as a woman in the most dangerous of circumstances, and what it is to be truly alone in the wild.