Amber, Furs And Cockleshells travels with Pilgrims and Merchants

Vikings, Romans, Viennese Turks, Native Americans, pilgrims, outlaws, football fans, ballerinas and saints. A 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. Her warm and accessible style brings to life the history and magic of three fascinating roads following in the footsteps of merchants and pilgrims. Praise for Anne Mustoe 'Evocative reading' Observer 'Her wry sense of humour is one of the great charms of Lone Traveller' Daily Telegraph 'A book about the true spirit found in real travellers, written by a real traveller' WanderlustMustoe, Anne is the author of 'Amber, Furs And Cockleshells travels with Pilgrims and Merchants', published 2005 under ISBN 9780753509838 and ISBN 0753509830.