Lone 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 ...