It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt.
Leaving behind home comforts, she set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon. Before she would reach her final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe would encounter the dusty yet beguiling Near East: Turkey, Syria, the Lebanon and finally Egypt itself.
Anne Mustoe weaves a story of exquisite detail laced with the understated humour that has become her hallmark.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Evocative reading * Observer * A book about the true spirit found in real travellers, written by a real traveller * Wanderlust *
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Illustrationen
1x8 b/w illustration section
Maße
Höhe: 194 mm
Breite: 130 mm
Dicke: 17 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-7535-0813-8 (9780753508138)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Anne Mustoe read classics at Cambridge and was the headmistress of a girls' school in Suffolk until 1987, when she left her job and embarked on her first solo journey around the world by bicycle. She is an established travel writer with a substantial following who lectures regularly on her adventures.
