Anne Mustoe (24 May 1933 – 10 November 2009) was an English schoolteacher, a touring cyclist, author of travel books and former

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of Saint Felix School, Southwold,

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. She fell ill and died in a hospital in

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on 10 November 2009. She was married to Nelson Edwin Mustoe QC (1896–1976). Her stepson, Julian Mustoe, completed a

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of the globe (2001–2012) following the route of ."Bill's Log"
"''Harrier'', a radically modified Folksong yacht"
18 January 2010

Publications

* ''A Bike Ride: 12,000 Miles Around the World'' (1991) * ''Cleopatra's Needle: Two Wheels by the Water to Cairo'' (2003) *
Lone Traveller: One Woman, Two Wheels and the World
' (1998) * ''Che Guevara and the Mountain of Silver: By Bicycle and Train Through South America'' (2007) * ''Two Wheels in the Dust: From Kathmandu to Kandy'' (2001) * ''Amber, Furs and Cockleshells: Bike Rides with Pilgrims and Merchants'' (2005) * ''Escaping the Winter (1993)''

References

External links

– Daily Telegraph obituary * 2009 deaths Solo female touring cyclists English female cyclists Ultra-distance cyclists British women travel writers English women non-fiction writers English travel writers Heads of schools in England 1933 births Place of birth missing Women heads of schools in the United Kingdom Cycling writers {{England-nonfiction-writer-stub