OT-Ms. Murphy has had at least two other cycling books published, both on tours in different parts of Africa. One was a journal of cycling around South Africa at the end of apartheid, the other a travelogue of cycling the "AIDS Highway" across the continent.
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA
>
> Speaking of bike books, (though this is a bit off-topic), does anyone know
> the name of the book by the Irish gal who rode to India (I think it was in
> the 1920s)? Great book, really well written, though it'd be a great read
> even if it'd been poorly written - just for the amazing fact of a woman by
> herself riding across Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan
and
> Pakistan when there were hardly any paved roads on the whole trip! I read
> it years ago and would love to own a copy, get to read it again.
>
> Got a copy of _The_Dancing_Chain_ for Christmas, with a personal autograph
> mentioning me by name even. Don't know how my beloved stoker-for-life
found
> out how to do that!
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle, Wa
> USA
>
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