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	The Perils of Dervla Murphy
		Thankful that she was still alive, Dervla left the disabled driver and her bicycle in the truck and started walking toward the village in the dead of night.
		Dervla backed off, grabbed her gun, fired in the air, and then took aim at her attacker, but before she could shoot again, all three men started running, dropping spades bicycle, and everything.
		Dervla tackled the 10,380-foot Shibar Pass on her bike, but her tires were ripped to pieces and her brake blocks torn to shreds.
	www.ahands.org /cycling/bicycling/dervla.html (2511 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times
		Dervla Murphy has been travelling on a bicycle for 40 years and written 20 books about her journeys, which have taken her to the farthest-flung corners of the planet.
		Despite Murphy's years of riding, she said that she is no mechanic and, in fact, doesn't even know how to remove a front wheel, a simple task most cyclists master early.
		Although Murphy said she realizes three months of midge fly bites and sleeping on the ground doesn't conform to conventional ideas of vacation paradise, she said that she suffers from chronic wanderlust, and cannot resist the call of the road.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/08/02/106.html (1373 words)

	Powell's Books - Where the Indus Is Young: Midwinter in Baltistan by Dervla Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter Rachel decided to explore "Little Tibet," a place high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas.
		In this memoir of that three-month journey, originally published in the UK in 1974, Murphy shares her and her daughter's adventures along the disintegrating trails of the Indus Gorge in the Karakoram Mountains.
		One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored "Little Tibet" high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas.
	powells.com /cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=719&cgi=product&isbn=0719565154 (442 words)

	Genuine Murphy: Famous Murphys
		Murphy, John Benjamin (1857--1916) Surgeon; born near Appleton, Wis. He spent his medical career in Chicago, where, in addition to his surgical practice, he taught at Rush Medical College and Northwestern University Medical School and was on the surgical staff at Mercy Hospital and Cook County Hospital.
		Murphy and collaborator George Minot received one-half the 1934 Nobel Prize in physiology for devising dietary liver and liver extract therapy for patients with pernicious anemia (George Hoyt Whipple was the other recipient).
		Murphy, Eddie OF, (1891-1969) Murphy was an everyday outfielder on the 1913 and 1914 pennant-winning A's and led the AL with eight pinch hits as a member of the 1919 Black Sox.
	www.murphysites.com /genuine/GM-famous.html (3791 words)

	Dervla Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dervla Murphy (born November 28, 1931, County Waterford, Ireland) is a touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books.
		In the midst of a record-setting blizzard in 1963, Dervla Murphy packed a pistol aboard Roz, her Armstrong Cadet bicycle and accomplished her first international bicycle tour - a completely self-supported solo trip from Ireland to India.
		In Yugoslavia, she began keeping a journal instead of mailing letters home.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dervla_Murphy (287 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Transylvania and Beyond: A Travel Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Murphy's mobile diary captures Romania in all its splendor and squalor.
		Murphy's book was helpful in showing the deplorable state the Communist regime left Romania and one must marvel at the hospitality shown by people who are living, in many cases, in poverty unknown in the Western world.
		Murphy chooses to mock a couple of Romania's favorable cultural attributes -- she is baffled by people's "old fashion" views of limiting sexual relationships to marriage, and she sees liberalizing the country's strict abortion laws as a positive step.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0879514728 (585 words)

	Alibris: Dervla Murphy
		Irish travel writer Dervla Murphy writes of her three voyages to South Africa that coincided with the first multiracial elections in April 1994.
		Dervla Murphy, the acclaimed travel memoirist, was on the scene in Romania at a pivotal moment in its history, after the fall of Ceausescu's regime in 1990.
		The eight feet are those of Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter Rachel, and their patient mule Juana.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Dervla_Murphy (792 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: One Foot in Laos: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dervla Murphy had planned to trek through the high mountains of Laos, far from the country's few motor roads, but she soon encountered complications.
		Dervla Murphy has a keen eye for detail and manages to capture much of the magic of this country and its people.
		Murphy's is a rambling adventure - she could drive a tour guide to drink within the hour.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0719559693 (1141 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts
		It is almost 40 years since Dervla Murphy burst on to the scene, with what rapidly became one of the best-selling of all modern travel books - an account of her bicycle ride to India, aptly entitled Full Tilt.
		Nor did Ms Murphy stop to ask him, being too pleased to be told what she wanted to hear.
		Unstoppable though she may be as a cyclist, Dervla Murphy has nevertheless fallen between two saddles.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/08/25/bomur25.xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/08/25/bomain.html (1077 words)

	Murphy Coat of Arms
		The original Gaelic form of the name Murphy is O Murchadha or Mac Murchadha, which are both derived from the word "murchadh," meaning "sea warrior."
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Dennis Murphy, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1766; Abraham Murphy, who settled in Maryland in 1674; Daniel Murphy, who came to Maryland in 1678; Ann Murphy, who settled in Philadelphia in 1773.
		The Ancestors and Descendants of Simon Jones and Ann M. (Dorr) Murphy by Marjorie Barnes Thompson, Early Murphy's, Murpheys in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Robertson and Carroll Counties, Tennessee by Marion Emerson Murphy.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/murphy-coat-arms.htm (1566 words)

	Amazon.com: Full Tilt : Ireland to India with a Bicycle: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In Ethiopia With a Mule by Dervla Murphy
		Murphy's journey in the early sixties is, if anything, more fascinating to read today in light of the changes in the Middle East since she travelled there.
		Murphy's trek takes her through Afghanistan at a time when the USSR and the US were vying for control of this country.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879512482?v=glance (1665 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Road Warrior
		But there are all kinds of zealots, and Dervla Murphy, who hates any kind of "progress" as if it were old-time communism or "godless atheism," marches into Laos to set the natives straight.
		This time it's not the virtues of instant pudding or how bombing them into smithereens will be good for them in the long run or that our God is better than their God, but a crusade against paved roads and hamburgers and neon lights and television.
		Dervla Murphy is a gutsy -- some might say reckless -- Irishwoman in her sixties who's made a nice living and an interesting life traveling through strange places in minimalist ways.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A25537-2001Aug2?language=printer (710 words)

	Eight Feet in the Andes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dervla Murphy is definitely a one of a kind treasure.
		Although the thought of reading about Dervla Murphy's trip throught the Peruvian Andes did not greatly interest me because of the potential for boring day-by-day narration, I found Murphy's description and narration of her trip very enlightening.
		Murphy deftly ties together her story of her trip with historical facts and cultural observations of Peru.
	www.incamaine.com /items/eight_feet_in_the_andes_2628.htm (370 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: One Foot in Laos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dervla Murphy was born in Ireland, where she still lives.
		Once I was able to get beyond Dervla Murphy's annoying bashing of the United States and the capitalist system, and her romanticizing of the noble savage, her travelogue provided, in the least, a good bench-mark of how rapidly Laos is changing.
		At best, her book was thought-provoking in that it made me question the benefits of development, and made me appreciate the resiliance of a nation that not too long ago was ravaged by war and continues to suffer from its effects.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1585671436 (908 words)

	HarperCollins Publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 'The Waiting Land' seasoned travel writer 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.
		Murphy's charm and sensitivity as a writer and traveller reveal not only the vitality of an age-old civilization facing the challenge of Westernization, but the wonder and excitement of her own remarkable adventures.
		"Dervla Murphy is dashing in her insight, beautifully responsive to environment, lovingly supportive to people of most sorts, sometimes exceedingly funny and always gloriously Irish"
	www.harpercollins.co.uk /books/default.aspx?id=6783 (277 words)

	Book Review: On a Shoestring to Coorg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Mustoe's account nearly three decades later, Murphy approaches India with trepidation derived from less happy experiences, but leaves in love with the land.
		Murphy is something of a dual to Jan Morris, with whom she is so often compared.
		Perhaps her embrace of it represents a certain longing for home and stability, but there is a clear price a society pays for such conformity and adherence to tradition; Murphy pays only the smallest attention to this cost.
	www.cs.brown.edu /~sk/Personal/Books/Murphy-Shoestring-Coorg (313 words)

	Amazon.com: The Waiting Land : A Spell in Nepal: Books: Dervla Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Written in the form of a diary, Murphy recounts the months that she spent in the 'waiting land'.
		Many westerners would find her experiences unacceptable, especially waiting days for a delayed flight and the hilarious but potentially dangerous airport at Pokhora where children play, animals graze and dogs fight on the runway until an aeroplane approaches and a whistle is blown to clear the way.
		Although Miss Murphy believes that the Tibetans are probably one of the dirtiest races, her admiration for their spirit, wonderful humour and compassion shines through.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0879512512?v=glance (630 words)

	Full Tilt; Author: Murphy, Dervla; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
		An account of how Dervla Murphy, on her bicycle, pedalled some 3000 miles to India through Eastern Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, the Himalayas and Pakistan.
		The book is based on the travel diary she kept at the time.
		Dervla Murphy is the author of The Ukimwi Road.
	www.netstoreusa.com /trbooks/000/0006548008.shtml (182 words)

	Post-Colonial Travel Writers
		In what follows Pico Iyer, Frank Delaney, Dan Jacobson, and Dervla Murphy have tried to answer some of these questions.
		Murphy usually travels by bicycle; in that way she has been to places in Africa as well as Asia, Transsylvania, and Northern Ireland.
		Dervla Murphy, when she is not travelling, still lives in County Waterford where this interview was conducted.
	webdoc.gwdg.de /edoc/ia/eese/artic99/stamm/1_99.html (8648 words)

	Bicycle Travel Book Recommendations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dervla Murphy's books are also among my personal favorites.
		Also by Dervla Murphy is, "Full Tilt." Dervla believes in carrying a firearm.
		At least it was a prominent and useful part of her equipment in 1962 when she rode across the middle east and Afghanistan on her first long tour from Ireland to India.
	www.cycletourist.com /book_recommends.html (1290 words)

	Dervla Murphy - TheBestLinks.com - Afghanistan, India, November 23, Pakistan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	Dervla Murphy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dervla Murphy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Dervla Murphy (born November 23, 1931, County Waterford, (An island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland) Ireland) is a touring (A person who rides a bicycle) cyclist and author of adventure travel books.
		In (A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe) Yugoslavia, she began keeping a journal instead of mailing letters home.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/dervla_murphy.htm (133 words)

	BookkooB: In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		BookkooB: In Ethiopia with a Mule - Dervla Murphy
		Murphy's trip is a bold endevour - she sets off each day with the mule, and with no idea of where she will stay.
		This made me think hard too: most of the people she stayed with were very poor, and sharing thier meal with Murphy can not have been easy for them.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/0006547982.htm (551 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Through the Embers of Chaos
		While bicycling hundreds of miles through beautiful yet tragically depopulated regions of Albania and the former Yugoslavia, Dervla Murphy tries to make sense of the confusing history and politics of the area, describing a remarkable journey and some remarkable people.
		Dervla Murphy was born in County Waterford, Ireland in 1931.
		Since 1964 she has been regularly publishing descriptions of her journeys - by bicycle and on foot - in the remoter areas of four continents.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=0719565103 (146 words)

	Where the Indus is Young
		Yet Murphy makes the trip in winter, with her six year old daughter.
		To force a wilting six-year-old up that last demanding stretch would be sheer cruelty, yet the idea of retreating when almost there went totally against the Murphy grain.
		Although Murphy demonstrates some restraint (Tiziano Terzani is insufferable in this regard; see A Fortune Teller Told Me) she still skirts dangerously close to hypocrisy much of the time.
	www.peripatus.gen.nz /Books/WheIndYou.html (670 words)

	Encyclopedia: Dervla Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		Trailblazer: Dervla Murphy from the archives of the Irish newspaper The Sunday Business Post
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	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dervla-Murphy (384 words)

	eBay - dervla murphy, Nonfiction Books, Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		DERVLA MURPHY EIGHT FEET IN THE ANDES PB
		South from the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy (1999)
		South from the Limpopo by Dervla Murphy (2001)
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	Dervla Murphy, Panelist - January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar
		Dervla Murphy, Panelist - January 2006 Key West Literary Seminar
		—Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle
		Dervla Murphy was born in Lismore, Co Waterford, Ireland in 1931.
	www.keywestliteraryseminar.org /adventure-travel/p_dervlamurphy.htm (118 words)

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