CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE Anne Mustoe - Two Wheels by The Water to Cairo

A cycling travel book by the very popular bike riding author. An account of a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, Anne 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.

This is a used travel book in very good condition: nice and clean and barely read. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on the most recent of her phenomenal lone cycle rides - this time to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving aside home comforts she set herself the challenge of journeying wherever possible close to water - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon - inspiring her to think of her mode of transport as a set of “waterwheels”. Sometimes, though, she got more water than any cyclist would want - when freak floods in Europe demolished the roads and bridges on which she was travelling. Before she would reach the site of the final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe encountered the dusty yet beguiling ancient near East: Turkey, Syria, the Lebanon and, not least, Egypt itself. Interwoven with information regarding the history and culture of every point en route are also accounts of the eventful and challenging fates that befell her.
Undaunted by extreme weather, robbery, an old knee injury flaring up and, worst of all, running out of whisky in a country that forbids alcohol, this pioneering ex-headmistress-on-a-bike soldiered on in true British spirit to reach her destination.

Book Details

Code: SKU1477

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 248

Published: 2007 by Virgin Books UK

ISBN: 0753508133

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