On her tenth birthday, to receive an atlas and a bicycle, Dervla Murphy devised a plan to travel by bicycle from her home in Ireland to India. More than two decades later, at the age of thirty and after the death of her parents, she left.
Her six-month bicycle trip took her from the deepest winter in northern France, through communist Eastern Europe and the deserts of Iran and Afghanistan to monsoon-soaked India – and established her as an adventurer in the days before hippie trail ”to be worn. The resulting book, based on her diaries, Full Tilt: Ireland to India by bikecreated his name as a new breed of professional travel writer,
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