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Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Abrams Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015063279494
In 1928, Agatha Christie, the world's most widely read author, was a thirty-something single mother.
Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781590209165
“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.
Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Get the Summary of Andrew Eames's The 8:55 to Baghdad in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The 8:55 to Baghdad" by Andrew Eames is a travelogue that traces the author's journey from Sunningdale to Baghdad, following the route once taken by Agatha Christie. Eames begins in the affluent suburb of Sunningdale, feeling disconnected from the community, and sets off from the local train station, contemplating middle-aged life. He travels through Victoria station, reflecting on the history of luxury rail travel and the Orient Express. Eames's path mirrors Christie's impromptu decision to travel to Baghdad after her marriage ended, seeking adventure and self-discovery...
Author : Andrew Eames
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0739463144
The author retraces the 1928 journey by author Agatha Christie from London to Baghdad, and describes many of the places and events that influenced her novels.
Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062073785
Baghdad is holding a secret superpower summit, but the word is out, and an underground organization in the Middle East is plotting to sabotage the talks. Into this explosive situation appears Victoria Jones, a young woman with a yearning for adventure who gets more than she bargains for when a wounded spy dies in her hotel room. The only man who can save the summit is dead. Can Victoria make sense of his dying words: Lucifer…Basrah…Lefarge.…
Author : Freya Stark
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0810160234
In the fall of 1928, thirty-five year-old Freya Stark set out on her first journey to the Middle East. She spent most of the next four years in Iraq and Persia, visiting ancient and medieval sites, and traveling alone through some of the wilder corners of the region.
Author : Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300142631
An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3763451
Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015054500361
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89128513298
Author : Mary Tavener Holmes,John Harris
Publisher : Two Lions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1662522673
Relates the story, told by a monk named Notker the Stammerer, of how the Emperor Charlemagne sent an ambassador to Baghdad, the center of the Muslim world, to learn about the great ruler in the East, Haroun al Rashid. Includes notes on the factual basis of the story.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : OSU:32435067603746
Author : United States. Dept. of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89128513330
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1130 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435066737149
Author : Lawrence Anthony,Graham Spence
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429981439
The astonishing story of the soldiers, conservationists, and ordinary Iraqis who united to save the animals of the Baghdad Zoo When the Iraq war began, conservationist Lawrence Anthony could think of only one thing: the fate of the Baghdad Zoo, caught in the crossfire at the heart of the city. Once Anthony entered Iraq he discovered that hostilities and uncontrolled looting had devastated the zoo and its animals. Working with members of the zoo staff and a few compassionate U.S. soldiers, he defended the zoo, bartered for food on war-torn streets, and scoured bombed palaces for desperately needed supplies. Babylon's Ark chronicles Anthony's hair-raising efforts to save a pride of Saddam's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, run ostriches through shoot-to-kill checkpoints, and rescue the dictator's personal herd of Thoroughbred Arabian horses. A tale of the selfless courage and humanity of a few men and women living dangerously for all the right reasons, Babylon's Ark is an inspiring and uplifting true-life adventure of individuals on both sides working together for the sake of magnificent wildlife caught in a war zone.