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Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo
by Anne Mustoe
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Virgin Books (2004-03-04)
ISBN: 0753508133
EAN: 9780753508138
Dewy Decimal #: 915
Paperback: 256 pages
Edition: New Ed
SKU: B458-1141
Condition: New
Comments: In stock - Immediate despatch from an efficient and professional leading British bookselling firm.
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Customer Reviews
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Brave lady on a bike
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-01-29
8 out of 8 customers found this reveiw helpful
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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