The 8:55 to Baghdad: From London to Iraq on the Trail of Agatha Christie

"A winning blend of travelogue and literary biography" by a British journalist who travels the journey Agatha Christie once did from London to Iraq. (Entertainment Weekly)

With her marriage to her first husband over, Agatha Christie decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself.

"Agatha Christie fans, as well as connoisseurs of fine travel writing, will relish British journalist Eames's gripping, humorous and eye-opening account of his train and bus trip across Europe and the Middle East on the eve of the second Gulf War." Publisher's Weekly

Second;Iraq;Gulf;war;Kurds;Armenians;Palestinians;English;travel;writer;writing;1928;bestselling;mystery;author;English;crime;writer;Europe;passenger;train;memoir;literary;biography;adventure;travel;history;autobiography;holiday;Middle;East;Damascus;Ur;Syria;archaeology

TRV026090 TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary

BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures

BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

TRV015000 TRAVEL / Middle East / General

9781468306415

Candlemoth

Ellory, R.J.

© 2006 The Overlook Press (E-bog): 9781590209165

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E-bog: 2. maj 2006