{"product_id":"full-tilt-ireland-to-india-with-a-bicycle-9781906011413","title":"Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost unknown occurence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted by snow in alarming quantites, and using her .25 pistol on starving wolves in Bulgaria and to scare lecherous Kurds in Persia, her resourcefulness and the blind eye she turned to personal danger and extreme discomfort were remarkable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-five books later, she continued to travel in much the same style well into her eighties, it is a plea- sure to encounter the young Dervla just setting out on\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eher travelling life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dervla Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eland Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781906011413\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurphy, Dervla:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - 135684","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dervla Murphy \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47876566417565,"sku":"9781906011413","price":47.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d6441904-a073-4df5-b1cd-5f4564d1655d.jpg?v=1777381982","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/full-tilt-ireland-to-india-with-a-bicycle-9781906011413","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}