Book description
'You don't have to be twenty, male and an ace mechanic to set out on
a great journey. I've cycled round the world twice now. I'm not young,
I'm not sporty, I never train and I still can't tell a sprocket from a
chainring or mend a puncture.'
So speaks Anne Mustoe in the opening to this fascinating record of
her second epic journey cycling around the globe from East to West.
Using historical routes as her inspiration, Anne followed the
ancient Roman roads to Lisbon, travelled across South America with the
Conquistadors, pursued Captain Cook over the Pacific to Australia and
Indonesia and followed the caravans along the fabled Silk Road from
Xi'an to Rome.
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.
