Description

• First Edition [John Murray, London, 1965]; xiv, 235, [3 blank] pages; green cloth, gold titling to spine, spine ends bumped, a little rubbed with some discolouration [fading] at extremities], offsetting to endpapers [faint at front, dark at rear], block darkened, a very good copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, unclipped [25s net], 3cm tear at spine base, rubbed & chipped at extremities
• Dervla Murphy’s first & best known book
• With numerous photographic illustrations & two maps
• Jacket design by Biro

A woman traveller on her own with a bicycle [even with a revolver in her saddle-bag], in such hazardous countries still untouched by modernisation, was an unusual focus of interest to say the least of it…