DM
published her account of her first traveller's journey with her daughter
(who was five at the time): On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of South India.
DM
published Where the Indus Is Young: A Winter in Baltistan, which chronicles her further travels with her daughter
, then aged six.
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987.
1979
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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DM
's Eight Feet in the Andes once more brought together human and animal travellers: this time, the trip was made by herself, her daughter
, and a mule called Joanna.
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She wrote this while her daughter's schooling was limiting her freedom to travel. I wrote it for Rachel
, really, as I had a strange childhood that I wanted her to understand. I never expected...
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DM
set out with her five-year-old daughter
for South India, which she had decided might be a more suitable destination for a child traveller than Mexico.
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At the end of their Andean journey, DM
was arrested (with her small daughter
) by the political police near Lima, Peru, and had to seek help from her Embassy to release them.
Murphy, Dervla. Transylvania and Beyond. Murray, 1992.