Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru [Lingua Inglese]: Travels with a Donkey from Ecuador to Cuzco - Rilegato

Murphy, Dervla

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0719540836 ISBN 13: 9780719540837

Casa editrice: John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1983

Riassunto

An account of the author's travels in Peru with her nine-year-old daughter and a mule, from the border with Ecuador in the north to Cuzco, the ancient Inca capital, over 1300 miles to the south.

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L'autore:

Dervla Murphy is one of the very best loved of travel writers. She was born in County Waterford and since 1964 has been regularly publishing accounts of her journeys - by bicycle and on foot - in the remoter areas of four continents. She has also written about the problems of Northern Ireland, the hazards of nuclear power, and race relations in Britain. The Times Literary Supplement called her 'an admirable woman - she has a romantic soul and a keen eye'.

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(First of all, why would an otherwise sane woman in her late 40s drag her poor 9 year old daughter half way across the world to trek over some of the highest, dirt tracks in the world with little supplies, no back up and worst of all, no real knowledge of where they were heading?
Whatever the authors reasoning for doing the trek, thank God she did and wrote about it so that we mere mortals can go a fraction of the way to experiencing a world we can only dream of experiencing.The book describes the scenery, the people, the abject poverty and the complete fear and mistrust of gringoes whilst at the same time the locals willingness to help strangers withoutpayment in return.
Thank you thank you thank you Miss Murphy for sharing your experiences in such graphic, sometimes too graphic, details. This book was a gritty absolute joy to read)

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• Editore: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0719540836
• ISBN 13: 9780719540837
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 274