The Waiting Land: A Spell. has been added to your Basket. Another really good book from Dervla Murphy. She revels being in the mountains and surrounded by mountain communities and desciribes both with equal clarity and passion.

The Waiting Land: A Spell.

The Waiting Land book. This was my first foray into Dervla Murphy travel books, and it was enjoyable. Her fortitude to live pretty much like a local in rural Nepal in 1965 is impressive. What struck me were things like how unfazed she was by doing things like sleeping in cowsheds (with cows and other livestock), and how she would go walking alone, often getting lost along mountain tracks. These stories are not told in a boastful, onedownsmanship way; I would venture this was her natural way of being.

On the booklet’s first page Tibet was referred to as ‘the Tibet Region of China’ – a politic ‘siding with the boss’ which would have infuriated me were I not so aware of Nepal’s terror lest she should herself soon become ‘the Nepal Region of China’.

Murphy, Dervla, 1931-. Nepal Description & travel 1960-1969. Oxford : ISIS Large print. Books for People with Print Disabilities. Internet Archive Books. Uploaded by Tracey Gutierres on September 18, 2013. SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata).

The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in Kathmandu, and later at home in a tiny, vermin-infested room above a stall in a Nepalese bazaar, she falls under the spell of this ancient land, poised between East and West, between China and India, between Buddhism and Hinduism, yet true to its own distinct civilization.

Dervla Murphy (born 28 November 1931) is an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books for over 40 years. 1966: Tibetan Foothold. 1967: The Waiting Land: a Spell in Nepal. 1968: In Ethiopia with a Mule. 1976: On a Shoestring to Coorg: an Experience of South India. Murphy is best known for her 1965 book Full Tilt: Ireland to India With a Bicycle, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. She followed this with volunteer work helping Tibetan refugees in India and Nepal and trekking with a mule through Ethiopia.

In The Waiting Land (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal’s different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country’s natural grandeur and beauty

In The Waiting Land (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy affectionately portrays the people of Nepal’s different tribes, the customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country’s natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy’s early travel books: an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman

item 1 The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal New Paperback Book -The Waiting Land: A Spell . Dervla Murphy was born (and still lives) in Lismore, County Waterford in 1931. Full Tilt, her first book, describes her exuberant bicycle ride from Lismore to India, through Iran and Afghanistan.

item 1 The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal New Paperback Book -The Waiting Land: A Spell in Nepal New Paperback Book. It has been followed by some twenty further titles, including an acclaimed memoir, Wheels within Wheels. Her most recent book is The Island That Dared, a series of journeys through Cuba, with her daughter Rachel and her three granddaughters. Country of Publication.

The Waiting Land : A Spell in Nepal. Having settled in a village in the Pokhara Valley to work at a Tibetan refugee camp, Dervla Murphy makes her home in a tiny, vermin-infested room over a stall in the bazaar.

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees – this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley