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Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by Dervla Murphy
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“Loved Mary's book! I want MORE. But I highly recommend FULL TILT: From Ireland to India on a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy. | Some excellent Adventure book recommendations if you're looking for gift ideas. | This is the single most rapturous thing I have read in YEARS. I'm embarrassed it has taken me decades to "discover" it, and so grateful that I finally have. Read the book ? your life will thank you for it.”
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Cycling, Travel, and Travel.
Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphy?s account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europe and through Persia and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India, during one of the worst winters in memory. She has written other travel books, including In Ethiopia with a Mule....
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Cycling, Travel, and Travel.
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“Loved Mary's book! I want MORE. But I highly recommend FULL TILT: From Ireland to India on a Bicycle by Dervla Murphy. | Some excellent Adventure book recommendations if you're looking for gift ideas. | This is the single most rapturous thing I have read in YEARS. I'm embarrassed it has taken me decades to "discover" it, and so grateful that I finally have. Read the book ? your life will thank you for it.”
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