Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle [NOOK Book]

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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. With indomitable spirit and her special brand of Irish understatement and wit Murphy revels in the unpredictability of her journey and the challenging grandeur of her surroundings. Full Tilt is a highly individual account by a celebrated travel writer based on ...
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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. With indomitable spirit and her special brand of Irish understatement and wit Murphy revels in the unpredictability of her journey and the challenging grandeur of her surroundings. Full Tilt is a highly individual account by a celebrated travel writer based on the daily diary Murphy kept while riding through Yugoslavia, Persia, Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. Murphy's charm and gracious sensitivity as a writer and a traveler reveals not only civilizations of exotic people and places but the wonder of a woman alone on an extraordinary adventure.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
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. Murphy's immediate rapport with the people she alights among is vibrant and appealing and makes her travelogue unique. Venturing aloneaccompanied only by her bicycle, which she dubs Rozthe indomitable Murphy not only survives daunting physical rigors but gleans considerable enjoyment in getting to know peoples who were then even more remote than they are now. Overlook will also soon publish in uniform editions Murphy's Eight Feet in the Andes, The Waiting Land and On a Shoestring to Coorg. March 21
Library Journal
This book recounts a trip, taken mostly on bicycle, by a gritty Irishwoman in 1963. Her route was through Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ended in New Delhi. She carried a pistol, got sunstroke, and suffered the usual stomach disorders. She endured bad accommodations but reaped much local hospitality, too, including a dinner with the Pakistani president. Most of the book concerns the high mountain country of Afghanistan and Pakistan. First published in England in 1965, the book is neither current, nor quite old enough to be of much historical interest. Nonetheless, it is a spirited account, suitable for larger public library collections. Unfortunately, it lacks illustrations, and the two maps included give us little idea of the remote areas she visited. Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781590209509
  • Publisher: Overlook
  • Publication date: 4/3/1987
  • Sold by: Penguin Group
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 858,185
  • File size: 2 MB

Meet the Author

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 were involved in the Irish Republican movement. Her father was appointed Waterford County Librarian in 1930 after three years internment in Wormwood Scrubs prison and seven years at the Sorbonne. Her mother was invalided by arthritis when Dervla was one year old. She was educated at the Ursuline Convent in Waterford until she was fourteen, when, because of the wartime shortage of servants, she left to keep house for her father and to nurse her mother. Dervla did this for sixteen years with occasional breaks bicycling on the Continent. Her mother's death left her free to go farther afield and in 1963 she cycled to India. There she worked with Tibetan refugee children before returning home after a year to write her first two books. Full Tilt was published in 1965 and over twenty other travel books have followed. She still lives in County Waterford. Her daughter, Rachel, and three granddaughters live in Italy and join Dervla on her travels when possible.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 28, 2002

    Never a dull moment!

    This is an insanely captivating account of a 1963 solo journey across Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Dervla travels through a world of wonders and conveys the joy as she marvels at the natural beauty of the land, the human accomplishments and foolishness, curious cultures and even her own incredible hardships (alternately frost-bite, dehydration and heat stroke)! I'm slowly savoring the last 20 pages... This is the kind of book to carry around to challenge people to open to ANY page to read a pargraph at random - every one is compelling.

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  • Posted January 25, 2013

    I read this book more than four decades ago. I was enthralled wi

    I read this book more than four decades ago. I was enthralled with it. It was the first travel book I had ever read. It must  have been about the winter of 1970 that I was offered an assignment to be a volunteer for the American Peace Corps stationed in Afghanistan. Knowing nothing about Afghan culture I needed to do research on the area before I could decide whether or not to accept the assignment offer. I loved the book ; Iparticularly loved the author's story of adventure. Murphy's book did inspire me to work in Afghanistan. For two full years.  So much that the author revealed about life in central asia was accurate, absolutely dead on. I first found the book in a small library in Xenia, Ohio.  I am delighted to find that I can now store a copy and read it from my new Nook HD tablet.  Ms Murphy was  then, and apparently still is, a brave adventurer taking great risks and enduring great hardships. You are in store for a good read. Buy it.

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