Bike travel author Anne Mustoe dies on bike tour in Syria

Published Dec. 3, 2009 at 12:00 p.m.

One of the bicycling world's most articulate travel authors passed away recently on what she said was going to be her last around-the-world bike tour.

Anne Mustoe of Great Britain died in a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Nov. 10. She was 76.

The former girl's school headmistress started her around-the-world bicycle travels when she was 54. She circled the globe twice -- once in each direction -- and wrote 7 books about her adventures.

She got the idea to travel by bike when she saw a man pedaling a bicycle across a desert in northern India. She was riding in a passing train at the time.

She left her job at the girl's school and was given a Condor bicycle as a going away present. She covered about 100,000 miles on that bike before she died...

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