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The only way home / Liz Byron.

The only way home / Liz Byron.
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ISBN 9781925868203
Author Byron, Liz (author.)
Title The only way home / Liz Byron.
Cover title Only way home : one woman, two donkeys and an extraordinary outback journey of healing and renewal
Publisher and/or associated date/s Warriewood, NSW : Woodslane Press, 2020.
©2020.
Description vi, 258 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.
Note "One woman, two donkeys and an extraordinary outback journey of healing and renewal" -- Cover.
Contents Donkeys -- Setting out -- Settling in -- Powering on -- No more fairy tales -- New Horizons -- The way through -- Are we there yet? -- Detour -- Exposed -- Unravelling -- Grace -- Moving on -- Reconnecting -- The wanderer -- Strays and angels -- Here I am -- Time to go home.
Summary 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.
Subjects Byron, Liz
Walking -- New South Wales
Walking -- Queensland
Self-realization in women
Donkeys -- Social aspects
Human-animal relationships
Self-actualization (Psychology)
Bicentennial National Trail (Australia)
Call number 2020.087
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A00925110 2020.087
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