num_pages: 305
description: In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveler Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her parents, particularly her invalid mother, whom she nursed until her death. Bicycling fifty miles in a day at the age of eleven, alone, it seems only natural that her first major journey should have been to cycle to India.
language: English
title: Wheels Within Wheels: Unraveling an Irish Past
titlecomplete: Wheels Within Wheels: Unraveling an Irish Past (Transaction Large Print Books)
genres: Autobiography, Memoir, Irish Literature, Travel, Cycling, Ireland, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 464
publisher: Isis Large Print Books