On a Shoestring to Coorg

A “lively travel memoir” by a woman who journeyed to India in 1973 with her five-year-old daughter (Publishers Weekly).   “Irish travel writer and memoirist Murphy has in the past bicycled from Ireland to India and traveled Ethiopia by mule. Here, she recounts a perhaps more daunting adventure—taking her five-year-old daughter wandering through southern India with little money and only what they can carry on their backs . . . Leaving behind the vividly described poverty of Bombay, the pair head south. Inland from the Malabar Coast, they come upon the lush, remote, comparatively prosperous region of Coorg: local people are curious and hospitable despite the danger of pollution by associating with casteless foreigners . . . Engaging writing and interesting view of rural India.” —Kirkus Reviews   “She is the best kind of traveler: observant, high-spirited, and impervious to discomfort.”  —The Sunday Telegraph