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Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy

Unaccompanied Traveler: The Writings of Kathleen M. Murphy

Bixby, Patrick

Hardcover

Series: Irish Studies

Travel WritingIreland

ISBN10: 0815637470
ISBN13: 9780815637479
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Feb 15 2022
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

At the time of her death in 1962, Kathleen M. Murphy was recognized as the most widely and most knowledgeably travelled Irish woman of her time . . . insofar as she let herself be known to the public at all. An abiding interest in sacred sites and ancient civilizations took Murphy down the Amazon and over the Andes, into the jungles of Southeast Asia and onto the deserts of the Middle East, above the Arctic Circle and behind the Iron Curtain.

After the Second World War, Murphy began publishing a series of vivid, humorous, and often harrowing accounts of her travels in The Capuchin Annual, a journal reaching a largely Catholic and nationalist audience in Ireland and the United States. At home in the Irish midlands, Murphy may have been a modest and retiring figure, but her travelogues shuttle between religious devotion and searching curiosity, primitivist assumptions and probing insights, gender decorum and bold adventuring. Unaccompanied Traveler, with its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, retrieves these remarkable accounts from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.

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