During the particularly harsh winter of 1963, Dervla Murphy rode her bicycle across Europe, Persia, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, Pakistan and India. This account of her extraordinary solo journey tells of her resourcefulness in the face of personal dangers and unexpected encounters. Dervla Murphy has also written In Ethiopia with a Mule, Muddling through in Madagascar, Eight Feet in the Andes, On a Shoestring to Coorg, The Waiting Land and Where the Indus is Young.