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21 produkter
Full Tilt
Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Häftad, 2010
179 kr
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Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles of barren land in the scorching desert. Full Tilt is a highly individual account …
Beastly Journeys
Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
Av Gerald Durrell, Dervla Murphy m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
143 kr
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David Attenborough, Dion Leonard (Finding Gobi), Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel …
Eight Feet in the Andes
Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru
Häftad, 2003
158 kr
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The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south.With only the most basic necessities to …
Through Siberia by Accident
Häftad, 2006
158 kr
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Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead.Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from …
Silverland
Häftad, 2007
158 kr
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Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. …
Place Apart
Northern Ireland in the 1970s
Häftad, 2014
201 kr
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A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland in order to try and sort out her own opinions and emotions about this troubled land. She …
On a Shoestring to Coorg
Häftad, 2014
179 kr
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This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the …
Month By The Sea
Encounters in Gaza
Häftad, 2015
156 kr
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Over the summer of 2011, Dervla Murphy spent a month in the Gaza Strip. She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters, rich and poor. Used to western reporters dashing in and out of the Strip in times of crisis, the people she met were touched by her genuine, unflinching interest and …
Between River and Sea
Encounters in Israel and Palestine
Häftad, 2015
219 kr
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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee …
Life at Full Tilt
The Selected Writings of Dervla Murphy
Av Dervla Murphy, Ethel Crowley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
293 kr
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Life at Full Tilt is a whirlwind tour of Dervla Murphy s travels. It begins in Spain in 1956, before her first book, and follows in her tracks for over fifty years, including descriptions of her beloved Afghanistan in 1963, of the Peruvian Andes, of South, West and East Africa and most recently of …
Island that Dared
Journeys in Cuba
Inbunden, 2008
470 kr
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Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba in the company of Dervla Murphy, her daughter and three young granddaughters and you have a Swallows and Amazon like adventure in the Caribean as they trek into the hills and along the coast as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars …
Wheels within Wheels
The Makings of a Traveller
Häftad, 2010
398 kr
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A first-hand account of the life of travel writer Dervla Murphy in which she tells of her early life in Lismore, Co. Waterford, in her rather unusual household. Her father was the county librarian and her mother a chronic invalid. An only child, Dervla was allowed from the age of seven to freely …
Island that Dared
Journeys in Cuba
Häftad, 2010
173 kr
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"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio of young girls and their mother soon find themselves camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars …
Tibetan Foothold
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed …
Waiting Land
Häftad, 2011
156 kr
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In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy's early travel books: an exploration of …
Where the Indus is Young
A Winter in Baltistan
Häftad, 2011
179 kr
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One winter, Dervla Murphy, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas - on the Pakistan side of the disputed border with Kashmir. For three months they travelled along …
In Ethiopia with a Mule
Häftad, 2012
179 kr
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In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for …
Freewheeling
Essays on Cycling
Av Imogen Binnie, Aniefiok Ekpoudom m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
142 kr
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A toda Máquina
De Irlanda a la India en bicicleta
E-bok, 2024
128 kr
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''A toda máquina'' es la inspiradora historia real del viaje de Dervla Murphy en 1963 de Irlanda a la India en una bicicleta Armstrong Cadet, y de las pruebas, paisajes y culturas que encontró por el camino.En 1963, Murphy emprendió su primer viaje de larga distancia en bicicleta, un periplo …
Month by the Sea
Encounters in Gaza
Inbunden, 2013
198 kr
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Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. During her "Month By The Sea", Dervla develops an …
