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Amber, Furs and Cockleshells Travels With Pilgrims and Merchants

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780753509838
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Imprint: Virgin Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 910.4092
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 200g
Height: 189mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 18mm