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July 1963, and Dervla Murphy, one of our best-loved travel writers, arrives in a sweltering Delhi by bicycle. Deciding that the heat precludes further cycling, she sets out about finding some useful way of filling her time until the cool of November arrives. So begins a unique and unforgettable experience working in the Tibetan refugee camps of Northern India.
Dervla vividly describes the day-to-day life in the camps where a handful of dedicated volunteers do their best to feel and care for them, attempting to keep disease at bay with severely limited resources. Quickly falling in love with the "Tiblets" – cheerful, she pitches in with a helping hand wherever it is needed (just about everywhere), and also finds time to visit the Dalai Lama and his entourage.
Dervla's heart-rending account is interwoven with her own observations on the particular cultural and social problems associated with trying to help a people who had always lived in isolation from the rest of the world, and a new perspective is afforded by her present-day reflections.
"This is a moving – at times even harrowing – story. But it is leavened by the writer's irrepressible zest for life, her warm humanity, her courage and good humour."
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"Dervla Murphy's eye for the unusual and her capacity of recreating the people she meets by the way remains as acute as ever."
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The time that Dervla Murphy spent working with the Tibetan children seemed to effect her greatly. Having spent a small amount of time in a Tibetan refugee settlement in Nepal myself, I found that her observations about their wonderful temperaments correspond with my own findings. Written in diary form, her forthrightness and individuality makes interesting reading. A good book for supporters of Tibetan independence. 'The Waiting Land - a spell in Nepal' continues her work with the Tibetan refugees.
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