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Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy's account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europe and through Persia and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India, during one of the worst winters in memory. She has written other travel books, including "In Ethiopia with a Mule".
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Captivating ... an enchantment that holds the reader as engrossed as would an exciting thriller (Irish Independent)
A distinctive and highly entertaining account of the tribulations encountered and the beauty along the way (Times Educational Supplement)
Her seven-month journey is continuously entertaining, and her fortitude continuously astonishing (Sunday Telegraph)
By almost anyone else's standards she had a hell of a time, but she communicates a high enjoyment that will be shared by all her readers (Daily Telegraph)
Few people can have had a better chance of understanding Asian people than Dervla Murphy (Daily Telegraph)
This book has the charm of spontaneity and the ring of absolute truth (Irish Times)
Warmly described, and with a lack of self-regard that immediately endears her to the reader (Sunday Times)
Warmly entertaining book ... range of engaging traveller's tales (Western Daily Press)
Fascinating, gripping and completely satisfying (Liverpool Echo)
[Dervla Murphy is] always great value ... fascinating account of her trials and tribulations, and also the beauty of her journey (Eastern Daily Press)
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A distinctive and highly entertaining account of the tribulations encountered and the beauty along the way (Times Educational Supplement)
Her seven-month journey is continuously entertaining, and her fortitude continuously astonishing (Sunday Telegraph)
By almost anyone else's standards she had a hell of a time, but she communicates a high enjoyment that will be shared by all her readers (Daily Telegraph)
Few people can have had a better chance of understanding Asian people than Dervla Murphy (Daily Telegraph)
This book has the charm of spontaneity and the ring of absolute truth (Irish Times)
Warmly described, and with a lack of self-regard that immediately endears her to the reader (Sunday Times)
Warmly entertaining book ... range of engaging traveller's tales (Western Daily Press)
Fascinating, gripping and completely satisfying (Liverpool Echo)
[Dervla Murphy is] always great value ... fascinating account of her trials and tribulations, and also the beauty of her journey (Eastern Daily Press)
Shortly after her tenth birthday, inspired by an atlas she was given, Dervla Murphy decided to cycle to India. Almost twenty years later she set out to achieve her ambition, pedalling her trusty bicycle, Roz.
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- PublisherArrow Books Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 009995530X
- ISBN 13 9780099955306
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages235
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