Dem Outback entkommen: Mein Überlebenskampf in der australischen Wildnis

“I’ll keep walking until I drop dead.”

What starts as a break turns into a fight for survival. While travelling, Carolina Wilga tries to decide how she wants to shape her future. But in Australia, the 26-year-old backpacker finds herself lost in the deserted outback after an accident involving her van.

Meanwhile, the world holds its breath as a large-scale search operation makes headlines around the globe. Barefoot and wearing only a dress and a scarf, she struggles through arid bushland for twelve days. She endures bitterly cold nights and sweltering days, drinking dew from blades of grass and building shelters from branches and roots.

This is a gripping survival account by a young German woman.

In her captivating and brutally honest book, Carolina Wilga recounts how she found the strength to keep going tirelessly, despite everything, caught between despair and the will to survive.