LIBROS DEL AUTOR: dervla murphy

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  • On a Shoestring to Coorg
    Dervla Murphy
    Dervla Murphy and her five-year-old daughter Rachel - with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans - meander slowly from Bombay to the southernmost tip of India. Interested in everything they see but only truly enchanted by people, they stay in fishermen’s huts and no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by local boats. They double back to t...
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    25,51 €

  • Where the Indus is Young
    Dervla Murphy
    In Where the Indus is Young, Dervla Murphy’s indomitable will is matched by that of four-footed Hallam and her six-year-old daughter Rachel. Together they make a mockery of fear, trekking through the awe-inspiring Karakorum mountains not only in the heart of winter, but close to Pakistan’s disputed border with Kashmir. They work their way up beside the perilous gorge carved thr...
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    27,67 €

  • Tibetan Foothold
    Dervla Murphy
    After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the subcontinent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the ’Tiblets’ - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India’s...
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    24,45 €

  • Wheels Within Wheels
    Dervla Murphy
    What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her family’s Republican loyalties and the intense relationship of an only c...
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    26,62 €

  • A Place Apart
    Dervla Murphy
    At the height of The Troubles, Dervla Murphy bicycled to Northern Ireland to try to understand the situation by speaking to people on either side of the divide. She also sought to interrogate her own opinions and emotions. As an Irishwoman and traveller who had only ever spent thirty-six hours of her forty- four years over the border to the north, why had she been so reluctant ...
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    26,41 €

  • Full Tilt
    Dervla Murphy
    When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the 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 almos...
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    23,20 €