Book · 1965 · Nonfiction

Full Tilt

Name: Full Tilt
Author: Dervla Murphy

Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Dervla Murphy

Speaking Tiger · 256 pages

★ 4.9 editorial score

Murphy left Dunkirk in the frozen January of 1963 on a bicycle named Roz and rode to Delhi, fighting off wolves in Yugoslavia and thieves in Iran, and setting it down without drama.

Genre

Travel literature Autobiography and memoir Adventure

Medium

Memoir

Subject

Solo travel Cycling Asia Hospitality

Setting

Central Asia

Time

1965Depicts 1960s

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