Dervla Murphy (born November 28, 1931, County Waterford, Ireland) is a touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books. November 28 is the 332nd day (333rd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... A cyclist is a person who engages in cycling whether as a sport or rides a bicycle for recreation or transportation. ...
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. That journal was later published as her first book Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle. In Full Tilt, she describes her adventures through Persia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. She particularly enjoyed Afghanistan and wrote lovingly of that country. The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was a Balkan state that existed from 1945 to 1992. ... ...
In the forty years since, she has bicycled through, and published numerous books on, Africa, the Balkans, Tibet, and Siberia. Generally travelling alone and unaided, she offers compelling insights into the cultures and the lives of the people she meets. Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and second most populous. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ... Tibet (Tibetan: བོད་, Bod, pronounced pö in Lhasa dialect; Chinese: 西è—, pinyin: XÄ«zà ng; older spelling Thibet) is a region and former independent country in Central Asia and the home of the Tibetan people. ... Siberia Siberia (Russian: , common English transliterations: Sibir’, Sibir; from the Tatar for “sleeping landâ€) is a vast region of Russia and northern Kazakhstan constituting almost all of northern Asia. ...
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.
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