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.
- ISBN10 0753547805
- ISBN13 9780753547809
- Publish Date 31 August 2011 (first published 6 March 2003)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Ebury Publishing
- Imprint Virgin Digital
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 272
- Language English