![]() ![]() ![]() 25 pistol on starving wolves and to scare off predatory men and relying on the generosity of nomads, she not only finished her epic journey, but also pioneered a form of adventure travel that has inspired generations. Undaunted by snow in alarming quantities, floods and robbery, using her. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this astonishing book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas into Pakistan and India. ![]() The Times When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas and soon inspired by her correspondence with a Sikh pen pal she was secretly planning a trip to India. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle Book Information:Īn extraordinary woman and one of the great travelers of our time. ![]()
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