In 1928, Agatha Christie, the world's most widely read author, was a thirty-something single mother. With the ending of her marriage to first husband Archie Christie she 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 en route reveals fascinating and little-known details in 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-forms a fascinating counterpart Agatha's, and the people he meets seem as if they could have stepped out of a mystery novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' descriptions of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fiction-and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself.
The 8:55 To Baghdad
- 作者： Eames, Andrew
- 出版社： Overlook Pr
- 出版日期： 2005-06-16
- ISBN碼： 9781585676736
- 編號： 203c109166285
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