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Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo (Paperback)

by Anne Mustoe (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Virgin Books; New Ed edition (4 Mar 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0753508133
  • ISBN-13: 978-0753508138
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 360,478 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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.

About the Author
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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Brave lady on a bike, 29 Jan 2004
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All my fantasies about cycling round the world have been brought rudely down to earth by Ann Mustoe's books and this latest one is no exception - she's doing it all so that I don't have to. This time she is pursued by dreadful weather nearly all the way - I would have given up by Paris. I do admire her openness to the people she meets on her travels, whether friendly, hostile or just curious. I also admire her linguistic abilities - she learned Mandarin Chinese to prepare herself for an earlier journey, and in this book manages basic Turkish and is disappointed that her modern Greek is not up to scratch. In this book she travels near water across Europe and the Middle East in the footsteps of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, and by the end you feel these people lived only a few years ago, not more than two thousand.
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