Full name: Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru

Author: Dervla Murphy Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Non Fiction, Memoirs, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780006547976 9780719565168 0006547974 0719565162

The eight feet belong to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru, from Cajamarca on the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities to sustain them and spending most of their time above 10,000 feet, their journey was marked by extreme discomfort, occasional danger and even the temporary loss of Juana over a precipice. Yet mother and daughter, a formidable duo, were unflagging in their sympathetic response to the perilous beauty and impoverished people of the Andes. Similar books: Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon Looking for Alaska by Peter Jenkins Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis Dove by Robin Lee Graham Walking the Nile by Levison Wood Travels by Michael Crichton Maiden Voyage by Tania Aebi Walking to Listen by Andrew Forsthoefel Rowing to Latitude by Jill Fredston Long Way Round by Ewan McGregor The Happy Isles of Oceania by Paul Theroux God's Middle Finger by Richard Grant 360 Degrees Longitude by John Higham From Heaven Lake by Vikram Seth The Walk West by Peter Jenkins A Trip to the Beach by Melinda Blanchard The Things You Find on the Appalachian Trail by Kevin Runolfson No Mercy by Redmond O'Hanlon Walking The Himalayas by Levison Wood