* For information about everything mentioned in this episode visit * If you'd like to support the show, receive the show early and get extra bonus fortnightly episodes, become a Patreon at Hosted on Acast. Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphys 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle and the trials, landscapes. Based on her daily diary, this is Dervla Murphys account of her ride, in 1963, across frozen Europe and through Persia and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas. Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom Contact seller. The route takes her through the valleys and snowy mountain passes of Europe and India to the. Living Full Tilt: Celebrate Life Joe Murphy. * To purchase any of the books mentioned in this episode please visit our bookshop at uk./shop/backlisted where all profits help to sustain this podcast and UK independent bookshops. Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy’s 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle and the trials, landscapes and cultures she encountered along the way.

Timings: (may differ due to variable advert length)ġ4:41 - One Last Song by Patrick Galbraith. This episode also features Andy reading from Craig Brown's new collected works, Haywire, while John has been enjoying In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s disappearing birds and the people trying to save them by Patrick Galbraith. Joining us to discuss the book are Felicity Cloake, food writer and the award-winning author of the Guardian’s long-running ‘How to Make the Perfect’ series and Caroline Eden, author and journalist, whose latest book, Red Sands is a reimagining of traditional travel writing using food as the jumping-off point to explore Central Asia. Murphys immediate rapport with the people she alights among is vibrant and appealing and makes her travelogue unique. It's a journal she kept on the 3,500 mile, six-month journey she made by bicycle from her home in Lismore, Ireland to Delhi in India in 1963, Ireland, traversing Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan on her trusty bike, Ros. Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle by the Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy was first published in 1965 and is the first of Dervla Murphy’s twenty-six books.

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