Cleopatra's Needle

Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo

Anne Mustoe (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2004
Virgin Books (Verlag)
978-0-7535-0813-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Zusatzinfo	1x8 b/w illustration section
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 194 mm
Gewicht	190 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Naher Osten
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien
ISBN-10	0-7535-0813-3 / 0753508133
ISBN-13	978-0-7535-0813-8 / 9780753508138
Zustand	Neuware