Dervla Murphy (28 November 1931 – 22 May 2022) was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years. Murphy...
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Dervla Kirwan (born 1971) Irish actress Dervla Murphy (1931-2022) Irish travel writer Dervla Burke, musician in the country band Crystal Swing Dervla...
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Brittany Murphy (1977–2009), American actress Dervla Murphy (1931–2022), travel writer Carolyn Murphy (born 1975), American model Claudia Quigley Murphy (1863–1941)...
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Graham Greene's 1982 novel Monsignor Quixote Rozinante is the name Dervla Murphy gives her bicycle in her famous 1965 cycle-touring journal Full Tilt:...
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Full Tilt is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It was first...
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John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 The legend is related in Ella Maillart, Dervla Murphy, Turkestan solo: a journey through Central Asia (1938) 2005:48f; a wholly...
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Through Siberia by Accident (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 2005. Through Siberia by Accident records a trip made when Murphy was seventy-three...
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early life in Lismore, is the travel writer and world touring cyclist, Dervla Murphy. Another notable resident was George O'Brien, the Irish memoirist, writer...
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A Place Apart (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
A Place Apart is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1978, and won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize...
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A Month by the Sea (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2013. A Month by the Sea describes Murphy's stay in Palestine during...
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Between River and Sea (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Palestine is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2015. It was Murphy's final book before her death in 2022...
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2020 – Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (b. 1938) 2022 – Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931) 2024 – David Wilkie, Scottish...
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travel writer who journeyed solo to four continents in the early 1900s Dervla Murphy Irish 1931 2022 Irish travel writer known for cycling alone through...
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Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography is Irish cyclist and travel writer Dervla Murphy's autobiographical book. It was first published in 1979 by John Murray...
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The Island that Dared (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2008. The Island that Dared describes the three journeys of Murphy to Cuba with her...
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original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2008. Dervla Murphy. A Place Apart. Penguin Books, 1978, p. 134. Murphy, p. 209. Sarah Nelson. Ulster's Uncertain...
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long-distance cyclists and their blog. For instance, Rebecca Lowe crossed Iran, Dervla Murphy crossed Afghanistan and Helen Lloyd crossed Africa. The book WOW—Women...
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very much — he being devoted to me, yet saying: By merit." In 1977, Dervla Murphy, in her book Where the Indus is Young, wrote, "Aurangzeb still represents...
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2011. Retrieved 9 July 2009. "Baikal". Collins English Dictionary. Dervla Murphy (2007) Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals, London, John Murray...
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Where the Indus is Young (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Where the Indus Is Young is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1977. The book is usually given the subtitle...
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On a Shoestring to Coorg (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
On a Shoestring to Coorg is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1976. The book is usually given the subtitle...
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Race to the Finish? (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Nuclear Stakes is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. The book was first published in 1981. Like Murphy's other earlier works, it was published by Jock...
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Beaumont Noted writers have combined cycling with travel writing including Dervla Murphy, who made her first documented journey in 1963, from London to India...
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South from the Limpopo (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1997. Train, Melanie (November...
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Visiting Rwanda (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
author Dervla Murphy, detailing her travels in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It was first published in 1998. In 1997, Murphy travelled...
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In Ethiopia with a Mule (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1968. In Ethiopia with a Mule is a story of Murphy's 1966 trek across the...
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The Ukimwi Road (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1993. Ukimwi is Swahili for...
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The Waiting Land (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
The Waiting Land is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1967 and has been described as one of the top ten books...
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Tibetan Foothold (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Tibetan Foothold is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1966. After her journey by bicycle from Ireland to...
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Silverland (category Books by Dervla Murphy)
Silverland: A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 2006. Littler, Jo (8 December...
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