![]() ![]() On subsequent travels she’d journey to Tibet, Laos, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Madagascar and Peru.įor Talking Books, Murphy talks about the journey that started it all. Murphy would never want to stay in hotels – certainly not “glamorous” ones – preferring instead to accept the hospitality of locals. The journey shaped her perspective on travel writing from then on. But when her journey was complete, she’d filled her diary with enough notes to inspire her first book – Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle. She would end up being attacked by wolves in the Balkans and seriously injured in Afghanistan. It was 1963, she was 31 years old, and inspired by memories of corresponding with a Sikh pen pal as a teenager she set out to bike from Ireland to India. Setting out on a bicycle she named Rocinante – after Don Quixote’s horse – and with only a small revolver for protection, Dervla Murphy began a journey that would shake up travel writing forever. ![]()
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