WHERE THE INDUS IS YOUNG
Book ID/图书代码： 07100006B06969
English Summary/英文概要： One winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored ’Little Tibet’ high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. For three months they travelled on foot and on pony along the perilous Indus Gorge and into nearby valleys. Even when beset by crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, an assault by a lascivious Kashmiri, the unnerving melancholy of the Balts, and Rachel’s continual probing questions, this formidable traveller retained her enthusiasm for her surroundings and her sense of humour. Hair-raising, gloriously subjective and with the quirky vitality of fiction, the resulting book is a classic of travel writing.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一九七四年的寒冬，黛芙拉．墨菲女士帶著她六歲的女兒深入位處「最西之端」，也是印度河發源地的「小西藏」巴提斯坦，展開長達四個月的徒步旅行。 在這段旅程中，只有一匹老馬哈蘭與她們結伴同行。她們一起走過喇崑崙山的險徑斷崖、挑戰喜馬拉雅山冷峻的冰雪世界，以及穿越深邃不見底的印度河峽谷。一路上，她們遭遇一連串的驚險與面臨死亡的威脅；同時，文化的差異、當地生活的不便，和目睹巴提斯坦人的困境，更帶給墨菲女士強烈的衝擊。
特別是她六歲女兒在旅程中所表現的勇氣與成熟，讓墨菲女士既感動也欣慰。有一次，當她們要越過一個泥濘小溝，蕾秋不小心摔了一跤，只見她抬起頭笑咪咪地說：「這是我第一次摔跤，瓊恩說，一個人得先摔上七次才能成為一名真正的騎士。」……
透過情味濃有郁而且幽默的文字，我們不啻感受了作者對周遭環境的關懷與熱忱，也看到與自然景物搏鬥的勇氣與機智。——来自豆瓣
Awards/获奖情况：“Her sumptuous descriptions of the mountain splendor and the obscure paths and cultures she explores, though, are appropriately timeless.” -- Publishers Weekly Review Annex ’Altogether the most appallingly fascinating travel book I have ever read’ -- The Times ’Such is the author’s love of travelling and of this untouched wilderness that the lasting impression left by this book is one of sheer joy’ -- Sunday Telegraph ’It is her real reverence for natural beauty that gives her writing its special quality ! Dervla Murphy’s books are so much more than traveller’s tales’ -- Daily Telegraph ’One of Dervla Murphy’s most considerable gifts is the ability to choose, get into, live in -- and take us back to -- places where the world is as it was and probably ever shall be. She is a connoisseur of lost Arcadias’ -- Times Literary Supplement ’The fascination of this book lies in the author’s gallantry, humour and resource in conditions which would appal the stoutest explorers’ -- Irish Times
About the Author/作者介绍： 黛芙拉．墨菲（Dervla Murphy）女士生於愛爾蘭的渥特福郡（County Waterford），雙親是都柏林人，自一九六四年起，作者便定期推出她在四大洲偏遠地區的遊記；她的旅行方式多半是騎自行車或徒步。 此外，墨菲女士的寫作題材也涵藝北愛爾蘭問題、核子工業的危害，以及英國的種族關係等等。目前仍住在渥特福郡。
Dervla Murphy is one of the very best loved of travel writers. She was born in County Waterford and since 1964 has been regularly publishing accounts of her journeys - by bicycle and on foot -- in the remoter areas of four continents. She has also written about the problems of Northern Ireland, the hazards of nuclear power, and race relations in Britain. The Times Literary Supplement called her ’an admirable woman -- she has a romantic soul and a keen eye’.
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