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1	Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist During the particularly harsh winter of 1963, Dervla Murphy rode her bicycle across Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, Pakistan and India. This account of her extraordinary solo journey tells of her resourcefulness in the face of personal dangers and unexpected encounters. Dervla Murphy has also written "In Ethiopia with a Mule", ... see all copies from $14.75! new only from $16.82! \| first editions
2	Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Travel writer Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $23.50! \| first editions
3	Where the Indus is Young: A Winter in Baltistan more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist A travel book, which recounts the author's journey on foot with her six-year old daughter through a difficult winter in one of Kashmir's most desolate and beautiful regions. First published in 1977. see all copies from $2.53!
4	Wheels within wheels more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely roam on her own. At ten, she cycled ten miles to a ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $16.82!
5	On a Shoestring to Coorg: A Travel Memoir of India more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist see all copies from $5.57! new only from $9.94! \| first editions
6	Eight feet in the Andes more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist The author describes her journey through the Andes with her nine-year-old daughter and a mule called Juana. Together they clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca on the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities to sustain them, their journey was marked by ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.54! \| first editions
7	In Ethiopia with a Mule more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy set out with her pack-mule, Jock, on a hazardous trek through Ethiopia's remote and hostile regions. Inspired by stories of Prester John and the Queen of Sheba, she hoped to find there beauty, danger, solitude and mystery. Instead she encountered rough terrain, exhaustion, illness and the disorder of the Ethiopians' domestic affairs ... see all copies from $5.22! first editions
8	South from the Limpopo: Travels Through South Africa more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy's journal of her cycle tours of South Africa in 1994 gives a day-by-day view of that period. When Dervla first pedalled across the Limpopo she fancied that she "understood" South Africa's problems because for more than 40 years she had - from a distance - taken an interest in them. Twelve hours later that illusion was shattered. This ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions
9	On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist With her five-year-old daughter as travelling companion, Dervla Murphy, veteran of solo journeys by mule and bicycle to some of the most inaccessible places on earth, sets off for Bombay, with plans to meander through southern India. Dervla and Rachel travelled by boat and by peasant-filled bus, making myriad friends along the way. They fell in ... see all copies from $3.66! new only from $92.82!
10	One Foot in Laos more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist When Dervla Murphy mentioned that Laos was to be her next destination, most people looked a little puzzled. For this country hardly ever hits the headlines, although its small population played a significant part during the Secret War (the covert operation carried out by the US, running parallel to the Vietnam War). In 1975, at the end of the ... see all copies from $24.94! new only from $50.99! \| first editions
11	Muddling through in Madagascar more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist "Everything about Madagascar is surprising", as Dervla Murphy and her 14-year-old daughter, Rachel, found to their delight. Despite accidents, misadventures, contrasts and the political instability of the Great Red Island, they returned with a lasting respect for the kindness of its proud people. see all copies from $3.77! new only from $19.83! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Island That Dared: Journeys in Cuba more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows and Amazon like adventure in the Caribean as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing the ubiquitous Cuban hospitality. But ... see all copies from $11.71! new only from $16.82! \| SVS
13 view cover	Cameroon with Egbert more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Cameroon with Egbert tells the story of a journey through the remote areas of Cameroon undertaken by indomitable author Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel, accompanied by an endearing horse named Egbert. During the course of their wanderings they are frequently mistaken for husband and wife, forcing Dervla to bare her chest to prove her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.70! \| first editions
14	Place Apart more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Through Siberia by Accident: A Small Slice of Autobiography more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen -- and what happened instead. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. But by accident, or rather because she had an ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.24! \| first editions
16 view cover	Full Tilt: From Dublin to Delhi with a Bicycle more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy's epic journey began during the coldest winter in living memory, and took her through Europe, Persia (Iran), Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. A woman travelling alone in these countries was the unusual focus of interest and, even when the weather improved, there were difficulties and dangers enough to ... see all copies from $70.00!
17 view cover	The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy often recalled these words while pedalling or pushing her bicycle over some of the roughest roads in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the beauty of the contrasting landscapes along her 3,000-mile route from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia to Zimbabwe more than compensated for the hazardous and the unexpected.;Dervla had been ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Transylvania and Beyond more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist From childhood Dervla Murphy harboured a desire to visit Rumania. Two weeks after the fall of Ceausescu her dream was realized, and this is the story of her journey, by bicycle and on foot. Fate struck at the start. Crossing the border by train, she was robbed of her rucksack and all her possessions, and a week later she was lucky to survive a ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $13.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Where the Indus Is Young: Walking to Baltistan more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter walked into the Karakorum mountains in the heart of the western Himalayas and along the perilous Indus Gorge. Accompanied by only a gallant polo pony, they endured conditions that tested their limits of ingenuity, fortitude and courage and, remarkably, with little loss of good humour. This is their story. see all copies from $9.01!
20 view cover	South from the Limpopo more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist see all copies from $3.68! new only from $3.68! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	A Cure for Serpents more books like this by Alberto Denti Di Pirajno, Kathleen Naylor (Translator), Dervla Murphy (Afterword by) add to wishlist The Duke of Pirajno arrived in North Africa in 1924. For the next eighteen years his experiences as a doctor in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somaliland, provided him with opportunities and experiences rarely given to a European. He brings us stories of noble chieftains and celebrated courtesans, of Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers, of giant ... see all copies from $16.19! new only from $16.28! \| first editions
22 view cover	Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist While bicycling hundreds of miles through beautiful yet tragically depopulated regions of Albania and the former Yugoslavia, Dervla stayed with families forcibly uprooted, their lives devastated by murder and pillage. Conversations revealed the griefs and confusions of ordinary people, many of whom were extraordinarily brave and resilient during ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $72.94! \| first editions
23 view cover	Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Silverland" charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here she discovers a strange world of lynx and ... see all copies from $4.59! new only from $12.07! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist Dervla Murphy, the acclaimed travel memoirist, was on the scene in Romania at a pivotal moment in its history, after the fall of Ceausescu's regime in 1990. For eight months she traveled the country, wandering through the remote corners of the Carpathians on foot or by bicycle, and sharing the lives of Romanians to give us a vivid picture of a ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $14.22! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Tibetan Foothold more books like this by Dervla Murphy add to wishlist In July 1963 Dervla Murphy arrived in a sweltering Delhi by bicycle. Deciding that the heat precluded further cycling until November, she worked in Tibetan refugee camps in Northern India. Using extracts from the diaries she kept at the time, Dervla describes the day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a ... see all copies from $12.60! first editions

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