Travels of the Heart: A Life of Travel and Adventure

"The desert gives you an awareness about where you fit in the world" … Robyn Davidson. Photo: Tim Bauer When Robyn Davidson was at Telluride Film Festival last year, she ran into Salman Rushdie at a group photo. Davidson, who is ash-blonde and has the pale, widely spaced eyes of an aquatic creature, was in a relationship with Rushdie for three years in the 1980s; he has called her the only woman he ever loved.