![]() Other titles include In Ethiopia with a Mule, The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba, Through Siberia by Accident, The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe, Eight Feet in the Andes and Muddling through in Madagascar. ![]() The result is a characteristically intimate portrait of a place and its people, and of the writer herself in situations that most of us would avoid for reasons of time and comfort but nevertheless find fascinating. Principled, uncompromising and honest, and an opponent of mass tourism, Murphy's books often reflect hard journeys taken alone or with her daughter, Rachel. Since then, she has published a further 22 travel books and an autobiography, Wheels Within Wheels: The Makings of a Traveller. One of Ireland's most famous travel writers, now 82, Dervla Murphy published her first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle in 1965. ![]()
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