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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781780600703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 7th September 2015
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Following A Month by the Sea, her acclaimed exploration of life in Gaza, Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of living with and among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in both Israel and Palestine


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781780600116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2014
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics.


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011413
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2010
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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The diary of Dervla Murphy's bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, the Middle East, and the Himalayas, to India. An amazing narrative from an amazing woman.


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2012
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethiopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.


(Paperback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781780600123
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2014
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander their way slowly south from Bombay to the southernmost point of India, Cape Comorin.


(Paperback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd September 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Describes the author's various journeys by air, by bicycle and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the border of Tibet.


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011406
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2010
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Traveler Dervla Murphy recalls her unconventional first thirty years of life, including her bicycle trek from Dunkirk to India.


(Paperback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9780719565168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2003
UK Publication Date: 18th September 2003
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A fascinating tale of extreme travelling on foot and by mule in the high Andes.


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9780719568299
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2008
UK Publication Date: 15th November 2007
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A wintry Russian adventure from the intrepid, enchanting, entertaining Irishwoman who has travelled the globe for the last fifty years


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9780719566646
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2006
UK Publication Date: 16th January 2006
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A new adventure from an unconventional and much loved traveller and writer.


(Hardback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011475
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with rest of the world, life in Gaza is beset with structural, medical and mental health problems, yet it is also bursting with political engagement and underwritten by an intense enjoyment of family life. In this title, the author develops an acute eye for the way in which isolation has shaped this society.


(Hardback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011352
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2008
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Take a three-generation family holiday in Cuba as they trek into the hills and coasts as a family, camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars and relishing in Cuban hospitality.


(Paperback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011468
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2010
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Features a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. This book also builds a complex picture of a people struggling to retain their identity in the face of insistent hostility, and to stand against the all-but-overwhelming fire-power of capitalism.


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By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011642
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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Describes day-to-day life in the camps where hundreds of children are living in squalor while a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feed and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with limited resources.


(Paperback)

By: Dervla Murphy

ISBN: 9781906011666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 20th September 2011
Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd
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One winter, the author, the four-footed Hallam (the mule) and her six-year-old daughter Rachel explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas - on the Pakistan side of the disputed border with Kashmir. This title details her journey.