When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted by sno...
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Dervla Murphy was born on 28 November 1931 of parents whose families were both settled in Dublin as far back as can be traced. Her grandfather and most of his family ...
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 255 ● ISBN 9781906011727 ● Tamaño de archivo 0.7 MB ● Editorial Eland Publishing ● Ciudad London ● País GB ● Publicado 2011 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 2429803 ● Protección de copia DRM social