Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-87951-342-9
Readers who have followed Murphy's adventures ( Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle ; In Ethiopia with a Mule ) know she is a dauntless traveler, unfazed by the unexpected and physically able to face rigorous conditions. But the Republic of...
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Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $27.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87951-372-6
In the fall of 1973, Murphy responded to a periodic travel itch by taking her five-year-old daughter Rachel to India, a journey that began in Bombay, proceeded down the coast, then turned inland to the remote and rugged highlands of southern India....
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Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-87951-948-3
In her latest travelogue, Murphy (Muddling Through in Madagascar) documents her 6000-mile trek through South Africa's nine provinces between 1993 and 1995. The post-apartheid South Africa she sees is characterized by violence, racial tension and...
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Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $22.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-87951-236-1
Here is the first American appearance of a book by Irish travel writer Murphy. Originally published in 1965, it is the diary of her bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, through Iran and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India....
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Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $21.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-87951-415-0
Irish writer Murphy ( Full Tilt ) comes here as a neophyte to West Africa, though not to world travel, having roughed it in India, Nepal, Peru and Madagascar in the past 15 years. In March of 1987 she trudged into the highlands of Cameroon on ``a...
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Dervla Murphy, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-87951-476-1
Irish world traveller Murphy's exhilarating account of her 1987 trek into the highlands of Cameroon with her daughter and Egbert the packhorse. Photos. (Sept.)
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Dervla Murphy, Author John Murray Publishers $15.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-7195-6515-1
In her 1963 classic Full Tilt, Irish writer Murphy recounted her seven-month bike trek from Dublin to Delhi. A decade later, the seasoned traveler returned to Asia with her six-year-old daughter, Rachel, this time determined to winter in Baltistan,...
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Dervla Murphy, Author, Dervla Murphey, Author Overlook Press $22.95 (290p) ISBN 978-0-87951-556-0
A brave and thoughtful Irishwoman, 60-ish Murphy (Transylvania and Beyond) specializes in treks through remote regions. Here she recounts a 3000-mile, four-month bicycle ride through southern Africa, at first seeking a ``carefree ramble'' but soon...
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