It's a Big Paddock: Diary of a Pack Camel

Dean Koopman has granted a voice to Shabby, the single minded lead camel on Koopman's extraordinary 2004 one man, three camel expedition from Broome across the Great Sandy desert to Alice Springs and on to South Australia's Spencer gulf. Shabby turns out to be an astute observer of the ageless beauty of the inland, where time is measured only in the plodding of camps-181. He is also a droll and affectionate humourist concerning his human companion, Koopman, known to Shabby as "the greenhorn...