You dont have to be twenty male & an ace mechanic to set out on a great journey. Ive cycled round the world twice now. Im not young Im not sporty I never train & I still cant tell a sprocket from a chainring or mend a puncture. So speaks Anne Mustoe in the opening to this fascinating record of her second epic journey cycling around the globe from East to West. Using historical routes as her inspiration Anne followed the ancient Roman roads to Lisbon travelled across South America with the Conquistadors pursued Captain Cook over the Pacific to Australia & Indonesia & followed the caravans along the fabled Silk Road from Xian to Rome.