The only way home / Liz Byron
- Bib ID:
- 8147447
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Byron, Liz, author
- Description:
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- Warriewood, NSW : Woodslane Press, 2020
- ©2020
- vi, 258 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781925868203 (paperback)
- Summary:
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On a warm day in May 2004 Liz Byron set off from Cooktown with her two companions, donkeys Grace and Charley, on a self-imposed challenge to walk 2500 kilometres of the Bicentennial National Trail over 9 months. This epic journey was a rite of passage to mark leaving 40 years of marriage and embarking on life as a single woman at the age of 61. She foresaw that self-reliance, physical stamina and route-finding would be challenges but couldn’t have known how the environment in Queensland was to test her to the limit. Years of drought had left much of her route a dusty wasteland, without food or water for her animals. Years of suffering from childhood abuse and a family tragedy had left her unwilling to ask for help. Walking became a meditation, an exercise in being in the moment even when that moment was 43 degrees or she hadn’t eaten for 7 hours. In her moving memoir, Liz reveals how she healed herself step by step on the way to her new home in northern NSW – by learning to trust her intuition, the wisdom of her animals and the kindness of strangers.
- Notes:
- NLApp87584
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Only way home : one woman, two donkeys and an extraordinary outback journey of healing and renewal
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2020
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