This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a
five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling
companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with
little money, no taste for luxury and few concrete plans meander
their way slowly south from Bombay to the southernmost point of
India, Cape Comorin. Interested in everything they see, but only
truly enchanted by people, they stay in fisherman's huts and
no-star hotels, travelling in packed-out buses, on foot and by
local boats. Instead of pressing ever onwards, like so many
travellers, they double back to the place they liked most, the hill
province of Coorg and settle down to live there for two months.
Anchored by her daughter's delight in the company of her Indian
neighbours, Dervla Murphy creates an extraordinarily affectionate
portrait of these cardamon-scented, spiritually and agriculturally
self- sufficient Highlands. If travel is underwritten by an
unwitting search for a lost paradise, this is a quest that was
achieved - made possible with the right sort of travelling
companion.
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