Wheels within Wheels
Autor: | Murphy, Dervla |
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EAN: | 9781906011406 |
Sachgruppe: | Belletristik |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Seitenzahl: | 236 |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.01.2010 |
Untertitel: | The Makings of a Traveller |
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In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to cycle to India.