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  • Full Tilt

    Ireland to India with a Bicycle

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visiting Rwanda

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    This critical account of Lecky's life, writings and ideals opens up a neglected area of nineteenth-century Irish and continental historiography, documents the parts he played in the unfolding drama of Anglo-Irish relations and the emergence of Irish nationalism, and deepens our understanding of the nature of culture and politics in modern Ireland. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Through the Embers of Chaos

    Balkan Journeys

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    As Dervla Murphy crisscrossed the Balkans in a series of bicycle journeys towards the beginning and end of the 1990s, she recorded the griefs and confusions of the ordinary people, many of whom had showed extraordinary courage and resilience during that terrible 'decade of decay' and whose voices were so little heard during the conflict. Despite their suffering, she found plenty of traditional ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tibetan Foothold

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wheels Within Wheels

    The Making of a Traveller

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her ... Read more

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  • Muddling through Madagascar

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    With her fourteen-year-old daughter Rachel, Dervla Murphy journeyed across the unique island of Madagascar, neither part of Africa, its nearest neighbour, nor part of Asia, the ancestral home the Malagasy people who live there. Beginning at Antananarivo, Madagascar's capital, they travelled south by foot, bus and truck through the Ankaratra Mountains, marvelling at lemurs in the Isoala Massif, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Month by the Sea

    Encounters in Gaza

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Through reported conversations she creates a vivid picture of life in this coastal fragment of self-governing Palestine. Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Place Apart

    Northern Ireland in the 1970s

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy cycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand the situation by speaking to people on either side of the divide. She also sought to interrogate her own opinions and emotions. As an Irishwoman and traveller who had only ever spent thirty-six hours of her forty-four years over the border to the north, why had she been so reluctant to engage with the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transylvania and Beyond

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    Shortly after the execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu, Dervla Murphy travelled to Romania and found a nation both exhilarated and bewildered by revolution. Eager to explore a country that had hitherto been inaccessible to outsiders, Murphy describes in lucid detail a journey on two planes: cycling and ambling through the rural Carpathians, and exploring the mind-set of a post-Communist society in the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cameroon with Egbert

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    Accompanied by her daughter Rachel and a loveable horse named Egbert, Dervla Murphy journeys across Cameroon, discovering a land of astonishing natural beauty and friendliness. Dervla and Rachel are frequently mistaken by the locals for husband and wife during their time in the country, leading on one occasion to Dervla exposing her chest as proof of her femininity. They are, by turns arrested, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On a Shoestring to Coorg

    An experience of southern India

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    Dervla Murphy and her five-year-old daughter Rachel- with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans- meander slowly from Bombay to the southernmost tip of India. Interested in everything they see but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. They double back to the place they liked ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus