About the Book: On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India
One of the worlds great travel writers, Dervla Murphy, and her young 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, in 1973. Interested in everything they see, but only truly enchanted by
people, they stay in fishermens huts and no-star hotels, travelling in
packed-out buses, on foot and by boat. But instead of pressing ever onwards,
they double back to the place they liked most, the hill province of Coorg, and
settle down to live there