Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule in Unknown Peru (Paperback) by Dervla Murphy

from Sr_Moreno

An intensely irritating book. On the one hand she bemoans the poverty of the locals, but then decries every sign of progress she sees. The book drove me mad for this and many other reasons, but I persisted as research for a trip I planned to Peru. The book was of no use in that regard either, unf...

from theonearmedcrab

I have great admiration for Dervla Murphy; she has written many travel books in her life, some of which have made it to my reading lists; as a youngster on a bicycle to Afghanistan and as an distinguished lady of respectable age in Laos. Somewhere in between these books she wrote “Eight Feet in t...

from CharlotteBurt

Written in the 80's a wonderful travelogue with a middle aged woman, a 9 year old girl and a mule. Walking for about 4 months in the wilds of peru. I love Dervla Murphy's spirit and wish my daughter of around the same age would be as stoic.

from LizzieD

Eight Feet in the Andes is exactly my idea of what a good travel book should be. As Dervla Murphy recounts her 1300-mile walk the length of the Andes with nine year-old daughter Rachel and mula bonita Juana, she not only describes the country and their travelling adventures, she also delves into ...