Ebook: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and within days she was secretly planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set off and this book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding through Persia, Afghanistan and over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an almost unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted by snow in alarming quantities, and using her .25 pistol on starving wolves in Bulgaria and to scare lecherous Kurds in P.;Cover; Praise; Title Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Epigraph; Maps; Introduction to the Journey; 1 : The Elusive Visa; 2 : Hospitality of the Police; 3 : Compulsory Bus Rides; 4 : Misadventure with a Rifle-butt; 5 : The Oddities of Afghan Trucks; 6 : A Medical Break; 7 : Anticlimax; 8 : Welcome at the Waliahad; 9 : Sweating out of Swat; 10 : Scraping through the Himalayas; 11 : From One Saddle to Another; 12 : Duel with the Sun; 13 : Two Wheels over Nine Glaciers; 14 : Running Repairs; 15 : Out of the Saddle; List of Kit; About the Author; Copyright.