Come, Tell Me How You Live from Mary Westmacott
Memories from archaeological expeditions in the mysterious Middle East

Category: Bücher
Pages / Format: 252 S
Edit year: 2015
Publishing House: HarperCollins UKHarperCollins
Language: Englisch
ISBN: 9780007487240

'Perfectly delightful... colourful, lively and occasionally touching and thought-provoking'<br>Charles Osborne, Books&Bookmen

'Good and enjoyable... she has a delightfully light touch'<br>Marghanita Laski, Country Life

'Agatha Christie has provided entertainment, suspense, and temporary relief from the anxieties and traumas of life both in peace and war for millions throughout the world.'<br>P. D. James

'Christie's witty account of her yearly expeditions in Syria in the 1930s ... is at once a captivating depiction of quotidian life at archaeological digs and a romantic portrait of adventurers and scholars in the interwar Middle East. Her relaxed narrative of the organization and effort in archaeological investigation and of the landscape and people in the region is engrossing-but what makes this book bewitching is the nostalgic glamour that infuses it."The Atlantic (US)

Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.

Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.

Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again!

To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange'other life'was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book.

Described by the author as a'meandering chronicle of life on an archaeological dig', Come, Tell Me How You Live is Agatha Christie's very personal memoir of her time spent in this breathtaking corner of the globe, living among the working men in tents in the desert where recorded human history began. Acclaimed as'a pure pleasure to read', it is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished.

4GBAgatha Christie wurde als Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller am 15. September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, als Tochter einer wohlhabenden Familie geboren. 1912 lernte Agatha Miller Colonel Archibald Christie kennen, den sie bei Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs heiratete. Die Ehe wurde 1928 geschieden. Zwei Jahre später schloss sie die Ehe mit Max E.L Mallowan, einem um 14 Jahre jüngeren Professor für Westasiatische Archäologie, den sie auf vielen Forschungreisen in den Orient als Mitarbeiterin begleitete. Im Lauf ihres Lebens schrieb die"Queen of Crime"73 Kriminalromane, unzählige Kurzgeschichten, 20 Theaterstücke, 6 Liebesromane (unter dem Pseudonym"Mary Westmacott"), einen Gedichtband, einen autobiografischen Berichtüber ihre archäologischen Expeditionen sowie ihre Autobiografie. Ihre Kriminalromane werden in über 100 Ländern verlegt, und Agatha Christie gilt als die erfolgreichste Schriftstellerin aller Zeiten. 1965 wurde sie für ihr schriftstellerisches Werk mit dem"Order of the British Empire"ausgezeichnet. Agatha Christie starb am 12. Januar 1976 im Alter von 85 Jahren.<br />

Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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