2001年3月开始写《羚羊与秧鸡》时,我仍在为前一部小说《盲杀手》进行巡回宣传,但那时我已经到了澳大利亚。在我完成了与书籍相关的事务之后,我的先生、我和两个朋友去北方旅行,到了麦克斯·大卫逊的营地,这里位于阿恩海姆兰的季风雨林区。在那儿的大部分时间里,我们观察鸟类的生活,也参观了一些敞开的联体洞穴,土著人曾在这里 When I started writing “Antelopes and Corncrakes” in March 2001, I was still urging for the former novel “The Blind Killer,” but at the time I was in Australia. After I completed my book-related business, my husband, my friend and I, traveled north to the camp of Max Davidsen, in the monsoon rain forest of Arnhem Land. During most of that time we observed the life of birds and visited some open caves, where the indigenous people lived