The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
by Murphy, Dervla
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0719552508
- ISBN 13
- 9780719552502
- Seller
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About This Item
London, John Murray, 1993, hardcover, xi-276 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author without inscription on the title page, Fine in Fine dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, in protective glassine sleeve. The intrepid traveler and author of Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle and an astounding 25 other books of travel and discovery tells the story of her 1992 bicycle trip from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia and her interactions with the local people centered around the devastating effects of AIDS, drought, and economic collapse, and the African scepticism for western 'development projects' and 'aid schemes' which promise so much but deliver so little except to the administrators. Illustrated with two maps detailing the route taken. Appended: Bibliography, Index. ISBN 9780719552502
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- Bookseller
- West of Eden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11223
- Title
- The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe
- Author
- Murphy, Dervla
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0719552508
- ISBN 13
- 9780719552502
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Africa; Africa, Sub-Saharan; Dervla Murphy; Description and travel; Essays; Essays & Travelogues; General; Journeys; Literary Collections; Murphy, Dervla; Travel
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