The 8.55 To Baghdad

Author: Eames, Andrew

Travel writing

Published on 1 June 2005 by Transworld Publishers Ltd (Corgi Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 432 pages
197 x 129 x 30 | 302g

Travel journalist Andrew Eames was in the ancient Syrian city of Aleppo when he met an elderly lady who had known Agatha Christie. Fascinated by the exotic history of this quintessentially English crime writer, he decided to retrace the trip from London to Baghdad which she made in 1928 - a journey which was to change Agatha Christie completely and led to her other life as the wife of an archaeologist in the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Travelling from London to Baghdad by train on the eve of the Iraq war, through the troubled areas of the Balkans and the Middle East, Eames found stark contrasts to the old Orient Express route as well as some unexpected connections with the past.