In "The Waiting Land" (first published in 1967) Dervla Murphy
affectionately portrays the people of Nepal's different tribes, the
customs of an ancient, complex civilization and the country's
natural grandeur and beauty. This is the third of Dervla Murphy's
early travel books: an exploration of Nepal by a feisty,
generous-hearted young Irish woman. Yet it can also be seen as the
completion of a trilogy of books concerned with her experience of
self- sufficient mountain cultures, first tasted in crossing Persia
and Afghanistan in "Full Tilt", and deepened with her experience of
working with Tibetan refugees in the frontiers of Northern India,
as told in "Tibetan Foothold". Having settled in a village in the
Pokhara Valley to work at a Tibetan refugee camp, she makes her
home in a tiny, vermin-infested room over a stall in the bazaar. In
diary form, she describes her various journeys by air, by bicycle
and on foot into the remote and mountainous Lantang region on the
border of Tibet. Murphy's charm and sensitivity as a writer and
traveller reveal not only the vitality of an age-old civilization
facing the challenge of Westernisation, but the wonder and
excitement of her own remarkable adventures.
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