In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable achievement was not surviving three armed robberies or the thousand-mile trail, but the gradual growth of affection for and understanding of another race.
The travels of Dervla Muprhy, who in 1966 travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule and then on a donkey. A classic of the genre.
