![]() Her kit list is minimal but does include William Blake’s Poems (Penguin edition – what other edition is there?) and a pistol, smuggling it past customs and sleeping with it under her pillow. Forget a new age women in business self-help book, Murphy is taking on the world. Her narrative is incredible and given she was a single, female traveller in the sixties its astonishing. Her travels to Istanbul are covered in a chapter and the rest of the book recollects her adventures in Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. She departs Ireland with Roz, her trusty bicycle, into the worst winter Europe had seen for decades. ![]() If you’re getting wanderlust and need some armchair travelling I have just the ticket, the book Full Tilt by Dervla Murphy. ”On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.” When she was thirty-one she set off to do just that. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a bicycle by Dervla Murphy ![]()
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