Across The Outback By Camel?

... And somehow I got to remembering reading about a woman who went across the Australian outback by camel.

This book was not promoted in Oz because it was just too silly for words. She wrote it as fact, but left the facts out! Even as fantasy, it left a great deal to be desired (and I couldn't finish reading it!_

I liked Tracks, as I recall.

Morgan is MAAAAAAAAAAD!

During the past four years an extensive International Campaign has been generated by the Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation to expose the fraudulent hoax of Marlo Morgan's, "Mutant Message Down Under" as a fabricated New Age fantasy based on deceit andCultural inaccuracies.

Also present were a group of Aborigines, who, in a very dignified manner, were trying, politely and without causing offence, to refute the accuracy/veracity of her claims. They explained that their tribe had lived for countless years in the same area in which she claimed her "walkabout" had occurred - and that they had never heard of these "Real People". My reaction was a great sense of sadness, in that these people were plainly hurt and bewildered by this woman's misrepresentations - but were far too dignified to more strenuously protest about the absurdities contained within her book.

She claims that before she invented them in the 1990s white Australians had never thought of fly screens despite the prolific number of insects. That is why her business venture, which is never named or located, was such a run away success.