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Unable to get into Tibet, Dervla Murphy finds herself instead in Nepal, helping out in a Tibetan refugee camp in Pokhara. She is absorbed into a life where poverty and illness are the companions to a culture and a beautiful landscape. Nevertheless, despite the problems and discomforts (rats in the bed being only one), Dervla Murphy managed to meditate with the Dalai Lama, to conduct dangerous and memorable treks into the highlands and, in defence of the bureaucrats, to bring home Tashi (her Tibetan dog). This is the account of her journey. The author also wrote "Cameroon with Egbert", "Muddling Through in Madagascar" and "On a Shoestring to Coorg".
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‘A travel writer of rare heart and freshness’
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‘An admirable woman... she has a romantic soul and a keen eye’
Times Literary Supplement
In 'The Waiting Land' seasoned 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. With her special brand of Irish understatement, she delights in the unpredictability of her journey and in the surprises which make her travels in that unique country such a stirring experience.
Having settled in a village in the Pokhara Valley to work at a Tibetan refugee camp, she makes her home in a tiny, vermin-infested room over a stall in the bazaar. In diary form, she describes her various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.
Murphy's charm and sensitivity as a writer and traveller reveal not only the vitality of an age-old civilization facing the challenge of Westernization, but the wonder and excitement of her own remarkable adventures.
"Dervla Murphy is dashing in her insight, beautifully responsive to environment, lovingly supportive to people of most sorts, sometimes exceedingly funny and always gloriously Irish"
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
"She revels in bizarrre experiences and strange encounters in a land where the only thing certain is that the unpredictable always happens"
IRISH INDEPENDENT
"Dervla Murphy is gifted with a sharp eye for the odd and the picaresque"
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"Dervla Murphy is gloriously uninhibited ... compulsive reading"
IRISH TIMES
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0099762404
- ISBN 13 9780099762409
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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