Dervla Murphy's other books include "Eight Feet in the Andes", "Muddling Through in Madagascar", "Transylvania and Beyond", Full Tilt: On a Shoestring to Coorg", "Through the Embers of Chaos: Balkan Journeys", "The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe", "South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa" and "One Foot in Laos".

'One of the supreme virtues of Dervla Murphy as a travel writer is that she is human. She needs her drink; she craves her cigarettes; she is capable of losing her temper; she smuggles things through customs. A more virtuous figure would be far less endearing.' -- Daily Telegraph 'Dervla Murphy must be top of the intrepid class: conventional travel writers seem impossibly pallid by contrast.' -- Financial Times 'An admirable woman ! She has a romantic soul and a keen eye' -- Times Literary Supplement 'Dervla Murphy's credentials are more than a brave heart and strong calf muscles ! the fruit of these mature wanderings for my money puts her among the select travel writers of the last two decades.' -- Observer 'Murphy's observation is acute, her self-effacement is disarming' -- Sunday Times

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 or by mule or on foot -- in the remoter areas of four continents. The Times Literary Supplement called her 'an admirable woman -- she has a romantic soul and a keen eye'.