Full Tilt Ireland To India With A Bicycle

“Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle” is Dervla Murphy’s classic memoir of her 1963 solo ride from Ireland across Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, over the Himalayas, into Pakistan and India. Based on the diary she kept on the road, it records snowstorms, wolf attacks, robberies, and extraordinary hospitality as a lone woman pedals through remote villages and borderlands with a .25 pistol in her pocket. Gritty, witty, and sharply observant, the book helped define modern overland travel writing and continues to inspire cyclists and slow‑travel seekers worldwide.