 Cover of Eland Books first edition (2013) | |
| Author | Dervla Murphy |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Eland Books |
Publication date | 2013 |
| Pages | 258 (first edition) |
| ISBN | 9781906011475 |
| 915.31 | |
| Preceded by | The Island that Dared |
| Followed by | Between River and Sea |
A Month by the Sea: Encounters in Gaza is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2013. [1] [2] [3]
A Month by the Sea describes Murphy's stay in Palestine during Operation Cast Lead. [4] [5] [6] She met liberals and Islamists, Hamas and Fatah supporters. A second book followed – Between River and Sea – but she destroyed the material for a third book based on visits to the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan for fear that it might endanger their lives. [7]
Dervla Murphy was an Irish touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books, writing for more than 50 years.
Charlie Kerins was a physical force Irish Republican, and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army. Kerins was one of six IRA men who were executed by the Irish State between September 1940 and December 1944. After spending two years on the run he was captured by the Gardaí in 1944. Following his subsequent trial and conviction for the 1942 murder of Garda Detective Sergeant Denis O'Brien, Kerins was hanged at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.
Eland Books is an independent London-based publishing house founded in 1982 with the aim of republishing and reviving classic travel books that have fallen out of print over time.
Paul Murphy is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since the 2014 Dublin South-West by-election. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2011 to 2014.
A Cure for Serpents: A Doctor in Africa is a 1955 travel book by Alberto Denti di Pirajno, later the Duke of Pirajno, an Italian doctor, writer and former colonial governor of Tripoli. Set in Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia, the book is a collection of anecdotes about various places he visited in his work as a physician in North Africa in the 1920s and the people he met, which includes tribal chieftains, Berber princes, courtesans and Tuareg tribesmen and of a lioness, which became part pet and part guard. The book was translated into English in the same year by Kathleen Naylor. It was republished by Eland in 2005, with an Afterword by Dervla Murphy.
A Place Apart is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1978, and won the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize in 1979. The book is usually given the subtitle Northern Ireland in the 1970s, but has been called A Record of Northern Ireland.
Between River and Sea: Encounters in Israel and Palestine is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2015. It was Murphy's final book before her death in 2022.
In Ethiopia with a Mule is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1968.
The Island that Dared: Journeys in Cuba is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by Eland Books in 2008.
On a Shoestring to Coorg is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1976. The book is usually given the subtitle An Experience of Southern India, but has been called An Experience of South India and A Travel Memoir of India.
Tibetan Foothold is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1966.
The Waiting Land is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1967 and has been described as one of the top ten books about the Himalayas.
Where the Indus Is Young is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1977. The book is usually given the subtitle A winter in Baltistan, but has been called Midwinter in Baltistan.
Eight Feet in the Andes is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1983.
The Ukimwi Road: From Kenya to Zimbabwe is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 1993. Ukimwi is Swahili for AIDS.
Full Tilt is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy, about an overland cycling trip through Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It was first published by John Murray in 1965. The book is usually given the subtitle Ireland to India with a Bicycle, but has been called Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle and From Dublin to Delhi with a Bicycle.
Race to the Finish? The Nuclear Stakes is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. The book was first published in 1981. Like Murphy's other earlier works, it was published by Jock Murray of the John Murray publishing house.
Wheels Within Wheels: Autobiography is Irish cyclist and travel writer Dervla Murphy's autobiographical book. It was first published in 1979 by John Murray, and reprinted by Eland Books in 2010 with the subtitle The Makings of a Traveller.
Visiting Rwanda is a nonfiction book by Irish author Dervla Murphy, detailing her travels in Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. It was first published in 1998.
Through Siberia by Accident: A Small Slice of Autobiography is a book by Irish author Dervla Murphy. It was first published by John Murray in 2005.
Her book is a kind of wake-up call to the world
A Month By the Sea is a restless antidote to the easy road of indifference ... a fist-clenched polemic, an octogenarian waving magnificently, not drowning
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