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Eight Feet in the Andes: travels with a mule in unknown Peru by Dervla Murphy
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities to sustain ...Show more
In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Dervla Murphy set out with her pack-mule, Jock, on a hazardous trek through Ethiopia
On a Shoestring to Coorg by Dervla Murphy
29.99 NZD
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Category: Non-Fiction
With her five-year-old daughter as travelling companion, Dervla Murphy, veteran of solo journeys by mule and bicycle to some of the most inaccessible places on earth, sets off for Bombay, with plans to meander through southern India. Dervla and Rachel travelled by boat and by peasant-filled bus, making ...Show more
Silverland by Dervla Murphy
32.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"Silverland" charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Her ...Show more
Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy
29.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. ...Show more
Through the Embers of Chaos by Dervla Murphy
29.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
While bicycling hundreds of miles through beautiful yet tragically depopulated regions of Albania and the former Yugoslavia, Dervla stayed with families forcibly uprooted, their lives devastated by murder and pillage. Conversations revealed the griefs and confusions of ordinary people, many of whom were ...Show more
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