Unleashing Independence: Solo Traveler’s Memoir
Unleashing Independence: Solo Traveler’s Memoir – An epic story of leaving everything behind to find purpose, adventure and love, from the winner of the 2022 Australian Geographic Spirit Adventure Award, who traverses 4,750km of the rugged Australian outback with five wild camels, How Deep is the Pass – Adventure, Love and camel tapestries. Tim Cope, author of The Road of Genghis Khan, When Sophie Matterson was thirty-one, she drove her five camels from East Bay in Western Australia to Byron Bay on the east coast. At a time when most of her friends were getting married or starting families, Sophie wanted adventure, independence and purpose. He broke up with his long-time lover, packed all his belongings into saddlebags, and trained his wild camels to lead him. Her thirteen-month solitary passage was the ultimate test of endurance and self-sufficiency—in each state’s various forms of lockdown, Sophie often went weeks without seeing … Read the rest