The 8:55 to Baghdad, Andrew Eames
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The 8:55 to Baghdad, Andrew Eames
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eng
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fiction
Main title
The 8:55 to Baghdad
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Andrew Eames
Summary
With her marriage to her first husband, Archie Christie, over, 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 reveals fascinating and little-knowndetails en route 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--becomes ineluctably 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 andinfluenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself
Target audience
adult
resource.variantTitle
Eight fifty-five to Baghdad
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- Middle East -- In literature
- Railroad travel -- Middle East
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Knowledge -- Middle East
- Eames, Andrew, 1958- -- Travel -- Iraq
- Electronic books
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- British -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century
- Iraq -- In literature
- Iraq -- Description and travel
- Railroad travel -- Europe
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Travel -- Iraq
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- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Subject12
- Middle East -- In literature
- Railroad travel -- Middle East
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Knowledge -- Middle East
- Eames, Andrew, 1958- -- Travel -- Iraq
- Electronic books
- Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography
- British -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century
- Iraq -- In literature
- Iraq -- Description and travel
- Railroad travel -- Europe
- Middle East -- Description and travel
- Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 -- Travel -- Iraq
- Content1