Dervla Murphy

Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of her most recent journeys to Israel and Palestine, whether visiting families in Haifa highrises or Palestinean refugee camps.

Encounters in Israel and Palestine

Between River and Sea

In Ethiopia with a Mule

A Place Apart

The author recounts her experiences traveling through the countryside of Madagascar with her daughter, and shares observations on the nation's history and culture

Muddling Through in Madagascar

The author travelled around Northern Ireland by bicycle. Her journey was undertaken to explore the north, both geographically and psychologically.

Dervla Murphy's journal of her cycle tours of South Africa in 1994 gives a day-by-day view of that period.

Travels Through South Africa

South from the Limpopo

This book is pure Murphy; detailing her winter travels in the Karakoram Mountains and the frozen Western Himalayas, as she, her six year old daughter, and the four-footed Hallam navigated crumbling tracks and bottomless chasms.

A Winter in Baltistan

Where the Indus Is Young

Dervla Murphy describes her various journeys by air, bicycle, and foot in the remote and mountainous Lantang region near Tibet. Written with charm and sensitivity, this book reveals the vitality of an age-old civilization.

A Spell in Nepal

The Waiting Land

Through Siberia by Accident is a book about a journey that didn't happen - and what happened instead. Dervla Murphy never had any intention of spending three months in the vast territories of Siberia. Instead she had planned to go to Ussuriland, because it appealed to her as a place free from tourism. But by accident, or rather because she had an accident - a painful leg injury -, she found herself stymied in Eastern Siberia, a place she knew very little about. Although hardly able to walk, her subsequent experiences, in an unexpected place, and in an incapacitated state, provided many pleasant surprises. Above all she was struck by the extraordinary hospitality, generosity and helpfulness of the Siberians who made this strange phenomenon - a maimed Irish babushka - so welcome in their towns and homes. This book is an extraordinary story of fortitude and resourcefulness as Dervla Murphy finds friendship and culture in a seemingly monotonous, bleak and inhospitable place far from what we know as 'civilised'. Through Siberia by Accident is a voyage of Siberian self-discovery.

A Small Slice of Autobiography

Through Siberia by Accident

Silverland charts Dervla Murphy's extraordinary expedition through the snowscapes of Far Eastern Russia. No stranger to adventure, the intrepid septuagenarian's mid-winter journey takes her beyond Siberia to the furthest corners of Russia - areas proximate to Japan, Mongolia and the Arctic Circle. Here she discovers a strange world of lynx and elks, indigenous tribes and shamanism, reindeer broth and taiga-berry pie. She takes the coal-fuelled slow-train around regions hardly exposed to tourism and there she meets a host of colourful and generous characters. They invite this unconventional Irish Babushka into their homes where she enjoys fascinating fireside debate bolstered by steaming samovars of sweet tea. Just like its author, Silverland is insightful, warm and truly original.

A Winter Journey Beyond the Urals

Silverland

Dervla Murphy recounts the events, people, and ironies she encountered while living in Gaza during Summer 2011.

Encounters in Gaza

A Month by the Sea

The real acheivement of Dervla's trip across Ethiopia was not surviving three armed robberies or a mountainous thousand-mile trail, but rather her growing affection for and understanding of another race.

From Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Full Tilt

A renowned travel writer details her six-thousand-mile odyssey through the nine provinces of the new South Africa, describing the people, culture, landscape, and complex problems of the country. Reprint.

From Kenya to Zimbabwe

The Ukimwi Road

The author recounts her experiences traveling in Nepal and shares her observations on the local peoples and cultures

The author describes a journey she made through the Peruvian Andes with her nine-year-old daughter and a mule, and shares her observations on the people of Peru

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