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This story traces Dervla Murphy's trek through the remote highlands of Ethiopia. Foreigners were not encouraged to travel alone through Ethiopia's remote regions, and it was against official advice that Dervla Murphy planned her highland trek in 1966. She set out from the Red Sea coast for Addis Ababa. In general, the highlanders were hospitable and, as the weeks passed, she realized that her total dependence on them and her increasing familiarity with their strange ways were breaking down the original barriers. Other works by the same author include "Full Tilt", "Where the Indus is Young", "Tibetan Foothold", "On a Shoestring to Coorg" and "Eight Feet in the Andes".
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One of the supreme virtues of Dervla Murphy as a travel writer is that she is human. She needs her drink; she craves her cigarettes; she is capable of losing her temper; she smuggles things through customs. A more virtuous figure would be far less endearing. (Daily Telegraph)
Dervla Murphy must be top of the intrepid class: conventional travel writers seem impossibly pallid by contrast. (Financial Times)
An admirable woman ... She has a romantic soul and a keen eye (Times Literary Supplement)
Dervla Murphy's credentials are more than a brave heart and strong calf muscles ... the fruit of these mature wanderings for my money puts her among the select travel writers of the last two decades. (Observer)
Murphy's observation is acute, her self-effacement is disarming (Sunday Times)
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Dervla Murphy must be top of the intrepid class: conventional travel writers seem impossibly pallid by contrast. (Financial Times)
An admirable woman ... She has a romantic soul and a keen eye (Times Literary Supplement)
Dervla Murphy's credentials are more than a brave heart and strong calf muscles ... the fruit of these mature wanderings for my money puts her among the select travel writers of the last two decades. (Observer)
Murphy's observation is acute, her self-effacement is disarming (Sunday Times)
A most intrepid travel writer goes on a perilous solo trek through distant and harsh Ethiopian lands.
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- PublisherPimlico
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0712603441
- ISBN 13 9780712603447
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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