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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by Dervla Murphy
I enjoyed this, it's written fully knowing that these are glimpses of the last gasp of an old world. These are remote places, just at the moment the outside world and its modernity are beginning to touch them. It's nicely written and often perceptive.
However.
It has to be noted the book is a product of its time. The n-word appears twice, there are various generalisations and sweeping statements on the qualities of groups of people. These are often kind, always sincere and seldom harsh. But they nonetheless are very dated and sound colonial.
"Yet they are a fine race of people, talk and well built, in complete contrast to their weedy, vegetarian Hindu neighbors. Also, of course, they are very astute businessmen and very unscrupulous money lenders. One of their racial characteristics is a stroke of mechanical genius; I'm told that most Indian bus and truck drivers in every state are sikhs"
However.
It has to be noted the book is a product of its time. The n-word appears twice, there are various generalisations and sweeping statements on the qualities of groups of people. These are often kind, always sincere and seldom harsh. But they nonetheless are very dated and sound colonial.
"Yet they are a fine race of people, talk and well built, in complete contrast to their weedy, vegetarian Hindu neighbors. Also, of course, they are very astute businessmen and very unscrupulous money lenders. One of their racial characteristics is a stroke of mechanical genius; I'm told that most Indian bus and truck drivers in every state are sikhs"