Dervla Murphy
Birth date: November 28, 1931
Dervla Murphy's Books
As a classic of travel literature this is good. In 1935 Ella Maillart traveled predominantly by donkey, horse, camel and her own two feet from Peking, at that time under Japanese control, to Srinagar, Kashmir. This took seven months. She traveled with Peter Fleming - yes, the very brother of Ian Fle...
Finished....oh thank goodness! I'm so glad that I'm done this book. The only thing that kept me pushing through was the fact that I was reading it for a class. I thought that Dervla's adventures were interesting, and that she was incredibly eager to get into the craziest situations, but I'm not a fa...
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