Race to the Finish?: The Nuclear Stakes

by Dervla Murphy

An unusual travel book. Dervla Murphy's mental and physocal journey into the unfamiliar world of nuclear energy and nuclear bombs.

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 1981

About the author

Dervla Murphy’s first book, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle, was published in 1965. Over twenty travel books followed including her highly acclaimed autobiography, Wheels Within Wheels.

Dervla won worldwide praise for her writing and many awards, including the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the Edward Stanford Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing and the Royal Geographical Award for the popularisation of geography.

Few of the epithets used to describe her – ‘travel legend’, ‘intrepid’ or ‘the first lady of Irish cycling’ – quite do justice to her extraordinary achievement.

She was born in 1931 and remained passionate about travel, writing, politics, Palestine, conservation, bicycling and beer until her death in 2022.

Reviews

[deni Tomgirl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but well out of date, that somehow makes it more horrifying!