| Wheels Within Wheels: The Making of a Traveller Contributor(s): Murphy, Dervla (Author) |
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ISBN: 1906011400 ISBN-13: 9781906011406 Publisher: Eland Publishing OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |