Full Tilt : Ireland to India with a Bicycle book cover

Pioneering Cycling Adventure

Travel Writing

Full Tilt : Ireland to India with a Bicycle

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Braving hunger, heat exhaustion, unbearable terrain and cultures largely untouched by civilization, Dervla Murphy chronicles her determined trip through nine countries, through snow and ice in the mountains and miles of barren land in the scorching desert.


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About the book

Full Tilt is a highly individual account by a celebrated travel writer based on the daily diary Murphy kept while riding through Yugoslavia, Persia, Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. Murphy's charm and gracious sensitivity as a writer and a traveler reveals not only civilizations of exotic people and places but the wonder of a woman alone on an extraordinary adventure.

Book details

Published by Eland Publishing Ltd

Paperback ISBN: 9781906011413 18 Jan 2010 214 x 140 x 16 (mm) 268g