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Where the Indus Is Young
Midwinter in Baltistan
By Murphy, Dervla
- ISBN
- 978-0-71956-515-1
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers, Ltd.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 19, 2004
In her 1963 classic Full Tilt, Irish writer Murphy recounted her seven-month bike trek from Dublin to Delhi. A decade later, the seasoned traveler returned to Asia with her six-year-old daughter, Rachel, this time determined to winter in Baltistan, an isolated northern province in Pakistan's disputed Kashmir territory. In this memoir of that three-month journey, originally published in the UK in 1974, Murphy shares her and her daughter's adventures along the disintegrating trails of the Indus Gorge in the Karakoram Mountains."The grandeur, weirdness, variety and f...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
