Full name: Wheels within Wheels: the making of a traveller

Author: Dervla Murphy Year: 1979 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780007123094 9780140054484 0007123094 0140054480

In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to cycle to India. Similar books: Memoir by John McGahern Almost There by Nuala O'Faolain Honeymoon with My Brother by Franz Wisner Are You Somebody? by Nuala O'Faolain Three Weeks with My Brother by Nicholas Sparks A Story Lately Told by Anjelica Huston Singing My Him Song by Malachy McCourt A Life on the Road by Charles Kuralt A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl Life Is a Wheel by Bruce Weber A Monk Swimming by Malachy McCourt Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn Foreign Correspondence by Geraldine Brooks Country Girl by Edna O'Brien Travels by Michael Crichton Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy In Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla Murphy Where the Indus is Young by Dervla Murphy The Ukimwi Road by Dervla Murphy Through Siberia by Accident by Dervla Murphy