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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
by Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy is both crazy and inspiring. She has done quite a bit of long bike trips, usually alone. In the 1960s Murphy bikes from Europe to Delhi, and kept a diary chronicling mostly her time in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Her joy at travel, new locales, and meeting people are apparent and make this enjoyable. This isn't the narrative armchair travel book that we would encounter today. The diary format is filled with day-to-day mundane details of eating, weather, and road conditions.
The style isn't the only thing that is a bit dated about this book. Murphy is open to many experiences, but the time period makes for certain preconceptions and terminology that are, I believe, hard to avoid. There are a few times that her descriptions of the primitives are a little cringe-worthy. I don't think that Murphy would have written the same book today. Apparently she is still kicking and did some travel even recently!
The style isn't the only thing that is a bit dated about this book. Murphy is open to many experiences, but the time period makes for certain preconceptions and terminology that are, I believe, hard to avoid. There are a few times that her descriptions of the primitives are a little cringe-worthy. I don't think that Murphy would have written the same book today. Apparently she is still kicking and did some travel even recently!