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The 8:55 to Baghdad

Author: Andrew Eames
Publisher: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Eames, Andrew, 1958-
8:55 to Baghdad.
Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2005
(OCoLC)557460815
Named Person: Agatha Christie; Agatha Christie; Andrew Eames
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew Eames
ISBN: 158567673X 9781585676736
OCLC Number: 57965787
Notes: Includes index.
Description: 403 p. : ill., 1 map ; 21 cm.
Contents: Encounter in Aleppo --
The 8.55 to Baghdad --
The longest train in Europe --
Intermezzo Triestino --
Republic of vegetable patches --
City of inner demons --
Love and death among the Serbs --
Tsar Boris and the Black Sea --
Travel, the cure for all ignorance --
Hubble-bubble on the Toros Ekspresi --
Return to the Baron --
Three days in Damascus --
The road to Baghdad --
Saddam City --
Nineveh, Jonah and Lucifer --
Incident at Ur --
The garden of Eden.
Other Titles: Eight fifty-five to Baghdad
Responsibility: Andrew Eames.

Abstract:

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.

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