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A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza by Dervla Murphy
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Bombed and cut-off from normal contact with the 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. During her "Month By The Sea", Dervla develops an acute ...Show more
A Place Apart Northern Ireland in The 1970s by Dervla Murphy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
A Place Apart is a remarkable geographical and psychological travelogue that rises above history, politics, theology and economics. Created by a southern Irishwoman, cycling into the mayhem of Northern Ireland in order to try and sort out her own opinions and emotions about this troubled land. She came ...Show more
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
$35.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Dervla Murphy describes with passionate honesty the experience of her most recent journeys into Israel and Palestine. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp on the West Bank, she talks with whomever she meets, trying to understand them and their attitudes with her ...Show more
Between River and Sea, Encounters in Israel and Palestine by Dervla Murphy
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
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. In cramped Haifa high-rises, in homes in the settlements and in a refugee camp o ...Show more
The Island That Dared by Dervla Murphy
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"The Island That Dared" is a passionate book from the pen of Dervla Murphy, which begins with a three-generational family holiday in Cuba. Led by their redoubtable hard-walking grandmother, the trio of young girls and their mother soon find themselves camping out on empty beaches beneath the stars with ...Show more
The Waiting Land by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy's early travel books: an exploration of Nepal by ...Show more
Tibetan Foothold by Dervla Murphy
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Dervla Murphy's first epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle, "Full Tilt", is a complete adventure in itself. It is also the first volume of a trilogy of experience that continues with Tibetan Foothold. For the young Irish woman, once she had got herself to India by July 1963, immersed herself in ...Show more
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