Full Tilt: "Dunkirk To Delhi By Bicycle" - Softcover

Murphy, Dervla

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712630090 ISBN 13: 9780712630092

Publisher: Century Hutchinson Ltd., 1989

Synopsis

Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy's account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europe and through Persia, Afganistan, 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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Review:

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)

Book Description:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Century Hutchinson Ltd.
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0712630090
• ISBN 13: 9780712630092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 235