Anne Mustoe was a touring cyclist, author of travel books and former headmistress of Saint Felix School

Saint Felix School

Saint Felix School is an independent school in Southwold, Suffolk.-Notable former pupils:* Jane Benham MBE - played a significant role in preserving Thames sailing barges* Natalie Caine - woodwind player...

, Southwold

Southwold

Southwold is a town on the North Sea coast, in the Waveney district of the English county of Suffolk. It is located on the North Sea coast at the mouth of the River Blyth within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The town is around south of Lowestoft and north-east...

. She died in a hospital in Aleppo

Aleppo

Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and the capital of Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,301,570 , expanding to over 2.5 million in the metropolitan area, it is also one of the largest cities in the Levant...

 on November 10, 2009. She was married to Nelson Edwin Mustoe QC (1896-1976). Her stepson, Julian Mustoe, is currently engaged in a circumnavigation of the globe following the route of the HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle

HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom in which...

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Publications

• A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World (1991) ISBN 1-852-27337-2
• Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo (2003) ISBN 1-852-27984-2
• Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World (1998) ISBN 1-853-10970-3
• Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America (2007) ISBN 0-753-51274-2
• Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy (2001) ISBN 1-852-27926-5
• Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants (2005) ISBN 0-753-50983-0
• Escaping the Winter (1993) ISBN 0-753-50825-7

External links

• Anne Mustoe - Daily Telegraph obituary