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Millionplus Australian real estate for saleIt was 1980 and Robyn Davidson was 30, unknown and working on the manuscript of her first book. London was cold and wet and a long way from her subject matter, but she'd found congenial digs in Doris Lessing's self-contained flat and exile companionship in two cockatiels she'd ransomed from a street market. The birds were flapping around the flat, pining for far horizons, when Bruce Chatwin knocked on the door.
The celebrated author of In Patagonia had heard about Davidson and her dromedary-propelled outback odyssey, and decided he should...
