{"product_id":"woman-alone-a-six-month-journey-through-the-australian-outback-paperback","title":"Woman Alone: A Six Month Journey Through the Australian Outback - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaine Cunningham\u003c\/b\u003e (Cover Design by), \u003cb\u003eAngel Leya\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Cheryl Strayed's\u003cem\u003e Wild \u003c\/em\u003eand Elizabeth Gilbert's \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-seven, Laine Cunningham seemed to have it all: tons of friends, a college degree, plenty of all-night parties, and a secure job. Yet every morning she dragged herself through a life that was corporatized and overly industrialized, a life that falsely glamorized everything she was supposed to want.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGuided only by a map pulled from an old copy of National Geographic, she camped in the Australian Outback for six months...and she did it alone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling in a time before Expedia or Travelocity, and without any guidebook or travel guide from Lonely Planet, the trip was never intended to be a vacation. Instead, it was a search for something deeper, something that lay inside. Cheap plane tickets or the cost of the airfare were far less important than the investment Laine made in herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe self-guided adventure tour around the country covered nearly 17,000 miles. Hostels were preferred to hotels, and then only when camping under the stars wasn't an option. Otherwise, her best accommodation was the red sand and her only travel guide was her instinct about where on the map to explore next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTold with warm humor and sparked with suspense, the search revealed a woman's most important discovery: herself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaine Cunningham, a three-time recipient of The Hackney Award, writes fiction that takes readers around the world. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Family Made of Dust, \u003c\/em\u003eis set in the Australian Outback, while \u003cem\u003eReparation \u003c\/em\u003eis a novel of the American Great Plains. She is the editor of \u003cem\u003eSunspot Literary Journal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47372565741746,"sku":"9780998224022","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/564f9cf9931673ff35ff68da56677575.webp?v=1777648862","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/woman-alone-a-six-month-journey-through-the-australian-outback-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}