- Description and travel, Travel, Cycling, Journeys
"Dervla Murphy ... pedall[ed] or push[ed] her bicycle over some of the roughest roads in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the beauty of the contrasting landscapes along her 3000 mile route from Kenya through Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia to Zimbabwe more than compensated for the hazardous and unexpected ...
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Dervla Murphy
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 289
- Publisher
- Overlook TP, Overlook Hardcover, Flamingo
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780719552502
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