- Description and travel, Ethiopia, description and travel
In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Dervla Murphy
- First published
- 1968
- Pages
- 281
- Publisher
- Arrow (Random Century Group), Murray, ISIS Large Print Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780712630443
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