On A Shoestring To Coorg

Description

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 myriad friends along the way. They fell in love with Coorg, the smallest of India

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Dervla Murphy's other books include "Where the Indus is Young", "In Ethiopia with a Mule", "Eight Feet in the Andes", "Muddling Through in Madagascar", "Transylvania and Beyond", "Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys", "The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe", "South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa" and "One Foot in Laos".

Reviews

'Dervla Murphy is the best kind of traveller: observant, high-spirited, open-minded, and impervious to discomfort, and Rachel is a honey ! Their keen appreciation of India's natural beauty makes the tiny province of Coorg appear as an earthly paradise' -- Sunday Telegraph 'Here is a new vision of the sub-continent' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Dervla Murphy spans the wide range of sensation of India, where moments of great happiness come hard upon frustration and stench' -- Guardian 'This is a charming book, bringing to immediate life the beautiful landscapes and friendly people of a little-known part of the sub-continent' -- Geographical Journal 'A travel writer of rare heart and freshness ! time in Asia has opened her eyes; it has not closed her heart to the romance of fresh places and faces' -- Observer 'Vividly she records the harshness of Indian peasant life, the beauty of the countryside, the warmth and spontaneity of the Indian people' -- Lady 'This is a book that makes one realise how much of the real quality of life we in the West have lost' -- Daily Telegraph

Author description

Dervla Murphy is one of the very best loved of travel writers. She was born in County Waterford and since 1964 has been regularly publishing accounts of her journeys - by bicycle and on foot -- in the remoter areas of four continents. She has also written about the problems of Northern Ireland, the hazards of nuclear power, and race relations in Britain. The Times Literary Supplement called her 'an admirable woman -- she has a romantic soul and a keen eye'.