About the Book: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
When Dervla Murphy was ten, she was given a bicycle and an atlas, and
soon—inspired by her correspondence with a Sikh pen pal—she was secretly
planning a trip to India. At the age of thirty-one, in 1963, she finally set
off, and this astonishing book is based on the daily diary she kept while riding
through the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and—over the Himalayas—into Pakistan and
India. A lone woman on a bicycle (with a revolver in her trouser pocket) was an
unknown occurrence and a focus of enormous interest wherever she went. Undaunted
by snow in