By bicycle and train through South America

Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver

A JOURNEY IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF A REVOLUTIONARY ICON

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.

In her brand-new travelogue, intrepid ex-headmistress and bestselling author Anne Mustoe dusts off the bicycle clips once more and embarks on a remarkable journey through South America. Following in the bike tracks of Che Guevara, Anne retraces the route this iconic revolutionary figure once tread, as documented in the famous Motorcycle Diaries. 
 
A second route takes her to Potosi, the highest city in the world, as she travels to the Mountain of Silver. 
 
Beautifully written and wonderfully evocative, Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver charts an epic journey by bike and train through South America's most colourful and historically interesting areas.

Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo

Cleopatra's Needle

A book about the true spirit found in real travellers, written by a real traveller

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.

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.

Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants

Amber, Furs and Cockleshells

THE INTREPID EX-HEADMISTRESS FOLLOWS IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MERCHANTS AND PILGRIMS OF THE AMBER ROAD

Her wry sense of humour is one of the great charms of Lone Traveller

Myriad wonderful characters populate the pages of Anne Mustoe's fascinating book as she pedals along three very different, but equally evocative, roads - the Amber Route from the Baltic to the Adriatic, the Santa Fe Trail from the Missouri River to New Mexico and the Pilgrims' Way of St James from Le Puy to Santiago de Compostela. 
 
Battling against ferocious winds in Jutland, blizzards in the Rockies, traffic jams of cyclists along the Danube and menus in Czech, Hungarian and Basque, Mustoe survives with her usual fortitude and wry humour, even when she is knocked off her bike by a short-sighted nonagenarian in a Fiat Panda.

One Woman, Two Wheels and the World

Lone Traveller

More remarkable tales from the intrepid cycling ex-headmistress

it's a compelling read, detailing the experiences of a rather curious traveller.

Her wry sense of humour is one of the great charms of Lone Traveller.

A book about the true spirit found in real travellers, written by a real traveller.

'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.

From Kathmandu to Kandy

Two Wheels In The Dust

India is no place for the faint-hearted cyclist. The streets are jammed with cars, busses, rickshaws, animals, fortune-tellers, barbers, beggars and people sleeping or cooking. 
 
Following the success of her two previous outings, A Bike Ride and Lone Traveller, adventuresome ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe donned the cycle helmet once more and set out on an exhilarating journey round the Indian subcontinent. Beginning in Kathmandu in Nepal and ending in the tranquil hill town of Kandy in Sri Lanka, Anne's amazing journey is told with keen observation and the relish of the open road.

12,000 miles around the world

A Bike Ride

AN EX-HEADMISTRESS, A BIKE, AND 12,000 MILES

When ex-headmistress Anne Mustoe gave up her job, bought a bike and took to the road, she couldn't even mend a puncture. 12,000 miles and 15 months later, she was home. 
 
Her epic solo journey took her around the world, through Europe, India, the Far East and the United States. From Thessaloniki to Uttar Pradesh, from Chumphon to Singapore, she faced downpours, blizzards and blistering deserts, political turmoil and amorous waiters - alternated with great kindness from strangers along the way. 
 
A Bike Ride is the first in the series of Anne Mustoe's successful and inspiring travelogues.

Anne Mustoe

The British winter: rain, heavy; trains, cancelled; Christmas, expensive. How many times have you thought that there might be an alternative to grey skies and cold weather- one that will not break the bank? 
Wintering abroad used to be the preserve of the very wealthy, yet since the advent of cheaper, easier travel, anyone who has the time to spare can escape the winter... and even save some money in the process, 
No one knows more about ascaping the British winter than acclaimed travel write Anne Mustoe, who has happily spent every Christmas overseas since 1987. Internationally renowned for her entertaining and heroic journeys cycling around the world, the irrepressible Ms Mustoe has put together an invaluable, no-nonesense reference book that is essential reading for anyone who is thinking of fleeing the British Isles during the winter months. 
Practical and thorough, Escaping The Winter is packed with all the advice you need to successfully make your escape, whether you crave rural isolation in a mountain hideaway or want to mix with the locals in a busy small town, including: 
- Choosing the right destination for you budget and requirements 
- Managing your finances and letting your property 
- Packing for an extended holiday 
- Making new friends and staying in touch with those back home 
- Staying safe and healthy 
- Getting around. 
If you thought of another British winter fills you with dread, then this is the bood for you.

Anne Mustoe

Books by Anne Mustoe

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