Most of the book concerns the high mountain country of Afghanistan and Pakistan. She endured bad accommodations but reaped much local hospitality, too, including a dinner with the Pakistani president. She carried a pistol, got sunstroke, and suffered the usual stomach disorders. Her route was through Yugoslavia, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and ended in New Delhi. This book recounts a trip, taken mostly on bicycle, by a gritty Irishwoman in 1963. Venturing aloneaccompanied only by her bicycle, which she dubs Rozthe indomitable Murphy not only survives daunting physical rigors but gleans considerable enjoyment in getting to know peoples who were then even more remote than they are now. Murphy's immediate rapport with the people she alights among is vibrant and appealing and makes her travelogue unique. Originally published in 1965, it is the diary of her bicycle trek from Dunkirk, across Europe, through Iran and Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and India. Written as a travel journal, Murphy chose not to edit it for publication and this adds to its immediacy and spontaneity.
The epic journey took her through Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, over the Himalayas to Pakistan and into India. Twenty years later she set off from Dunkirk towards Delhi. A few days later she decided to cycle to India. On her tenth Birthday Dervla Murphy was given a bicycle and an atlas.
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