Author

Publication

1980 - Ticknor & Fields, New Haven, Conn, England

Language

English

Word Count

59,000 words, Guess

Page Count

236 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number79322778
  • Library of Congress Control Number79027095
  • OCLC Control Number5892873
  • Better World Books9780899190068
  • Open LibraryOL15126320M

Classifications

  • LCCG269.52.M87 A34 1980

Description

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.

Subjects

Topics

CyclistsTravelersBiographyFiction, generalIreland, biographyAthletes, biographyMurphy, Dervla, -- 1931-

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Other Editions

  • Wheels within wheelsTicknor & Fields1980-01-01
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