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The Ukimwi Road by: Dervla Murphy |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 916.7 EAN: 9780006548027 ISBN: 0006548024 Label: HarperCollins Canada / Trade Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada / Trade Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: 1994-10 Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Trade Studio: HarperCollins Canada / Trade Sales Rank: 56565 Related Items: Related Items:   see moreBrowse for similar items by category: Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - A loner's important journey into AfricaSince 1964 Irish writer Murphy has been traveling the world by foot and bicycle and writing about her experiences. An outspoken loner, drawn to the more remote parts of the globe, her beautiful but rugged experiences fascinate and educate the armchair traveler - without inspiring similar ambitions. As a 60th birthday present to herself, Murphy undertakes a 3,000 mile journey through Eastern and Southern Africa on her Dawes Ascent mountain-bike, "the cyclist's equivalent of a Rolls-Royce," named Lear. The trip was a "self-described unwinding therapy.....a carefree ramble through some of the least hot areas of sub-Saharan Africa." But "carefree" it is not, though nothing - not heat, torrential ... Read More: |
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