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Tibetan Foothold

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by Dervla Murphy


  Holding On

  MERVYN JONES

  One family and one street in London’s East End: 1880-1960

  Red Moon & High Summer

  HERBERT KAUFMANN

  A coming-of-age novel following a young singer in his Tuareg homeland

  Three Came Home

  AGNES KEITH

  A mother’s ordeal in a Japanese prison camp

  Peking Story

  DAVID KIDD

  The ruin of an ancient Mandarin family under the new communist order

  Syria: through writers’ eyes

  ED. MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI

  Guidebooks for the mind: a selection of the best travel writing on Syria

  Scum of the Earth

  ARTHUR KOESTLER

  Koestler’s personal experience of France in World War II

  A Dragon Apparent

  NORMAN LEWTS

  Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam on the eve of war

  Golden Earth

  NORMAN LEWIS

  Travels in Burma

  The Honoured Society

  NORMAN LEWIS

  Sicily, her people and the Mafia within

  Naples ’44

  NORMAN LEWIS

  Post-war Naples and an intelligence officer’s love of Italy’s gift for life

  A View of the World

  NORMAN LEWIS

  Collected writings by the great English travel writer

  An Indian Attachment

  SARAH LLOYD

  Life and love in a remote Indian village

  A Pike in the Basement

  SIMON LOFTUS

  Tales of a hungry traveller: from catfish in Mississippi to fried eggs with chapatis in Pakistan

  Among the Faithful

  DAHRIS MARTIN

  An American woman living in the holy city of Kairouan, Tunisia in the 1920s

  Lords of the Atlas

  GAVIN MAXWELL

  The rise and fall of Morocco’ s infamous Glaoua family, 1893-1956

  A Reed Shaken by the Wind

  GAVIN MAXWELL

  Travels among the threatened Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq

  A Year in Marrakesh

  PETER MAYNE

  Back-street life in Morocco in the 1950s

  Sultan in Oman

  JAN MORRIS

  An historic journey through the still-medieval state of Oman in the 1950s

  The Caravan Moves On

  IRFAN ORGA

  Life with the nomads of central Turkey

  Portrait of a Turkish Family

  IRFAN ORGA

  The decline of a prosperous Ottoman family in the new Republic

  The Undefeated

  GEORGE PALOCZI-HORVATH

  Fighting injustice in communist Hungary

  Travels into the Interior of Africa

  MUNGO PARK

  The first – and still the best – European record of west-African exploration

  Lighthouse

  TONY PARKER

  Britain’s lighthouse-keepers, in their own words

  The People of Providence

  TONY PARKER

  A London housing estate and some of its inhabitants

  Begums, Thugs & White Mughals

  FANNY PARKES

  William Dalrymple edits and introduces his favourite Indian travel book

  The Last Time I Saw Paris

  ELLIOT PAUL

  One street, its loves and loathings, set against the passionate politics of inter-war Paris

  Rites

  VICTOR PERERA

  A Jewish childhood in Guatemala

  A Cure for Serpents

  THE DUKE OF PIRAJNO

  An Italian doctor and his Bedouin patients, Libyan sheikhs and Tuareg mistress in the 1920s

  Nunaga

  DUNCAN PRYDE

  Ten years among the Eskimos: hunting, fur-trading and heroic dog-treks

  A Funny Old Quist

  EVAN ROGERS

  A gamekeeper’s passionate evocation of a now-vanished English rural lifestyle

  Meetings with Remarkable Muslims

  ED. ROGERSON & BARING

  A collection of contemporary travel writing that celebrates cultural difference and the Islamic world

  Marrakesh: through writers’eyes

  ED. ROGERSON & LAVINGTON

  Guidebooks for the mind; a selection of the best travel writing on Marrakesh

  Living Poor

  MORITZ THOMSEN

  An American’s encounter with poverty in Ecuador

  Hermit of Peking

  HUGH TREVOR-ROPER

  The hidden life of the scholar Sir Edmund Backhouse

  The Law

  ROGER VAILLAND

  The harsh game of life played in the taverns of southern Italy

  The Road to Nab End

  WILLIAM WOODRUFF

  The best selling story of poverty and survival in a Lancashire mill town

  The Village in the Jungle

  LEONARD WOOLF

  A dark novel of native villagers struggling to survive in colonial Ceylon

  Death’s Other Kingdom

  GAMEL WOOLSEY

  The tragic arrival of civil war in an Andalucian village in 1936

  The Ginger Tree

  OSWALD WYND

  A Scotswoman’s love and survival in early twentieth-century Japan

  Copyright

  First published in England by John Murray in 1966

  First published by Eland Publishing Limited

  61 Exmouth Market, London EC1R 4QL in 2011

  This ebook edition first published in 2011

  All rights reserved

  Text © Dervla Murphy, 1966

  The right of Dervla Murphy to be identified as

  author of this work has been asserted in accordance

  with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and

  Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be

  copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased,

  licensed or publicly performed or used in any way

  except as specifically permitted in writing by the

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  distribution or use of this text may be a direct

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  and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  ISBN 978 1 906011 76 5

  Cover Image: ‘Children in Zanskar’ © Olivier Föllmi

 

 

 


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