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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

By Dervla Murphy

Book information

Publisher
Eland Publishing
Year
2011
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
693 kB (709624 bytes)
Pages
256\0
Time added
2012-06-07 15:16:40

Description

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 unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted by snow in alarming quantities, and using her .25 pistol on starving wolves in Bulgaria and to scare lecherous Kurds in Persia, her resourcefulness and the blind eye she turned to personal danger and extreme discomfort were remarkable.

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