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."
