The 8.55 to Baghdad
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The 8.55 to Baghdad
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Andrew Eames
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Andrew Eames
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I listened to the book because I have travelled parts of the journey that the author undertakes. I had only a limited knowledge of Agatha Christie but this was not a problem. It is an interesting thread in the book that left me wanting to read more of her work, but the account can be read as a travelogue. At times Agatha slips into the background and contemporary issues take her place.
The train travel parts are a wonderful evocation of the joys and frustrations of railways. My only disappointment was that the author had not managed to take the train from Mosul to Baghdad - a journey I have always wanted to do.
And finally, in narrating his own words Eames did an excellent job. We see the world through his eyes.
A moment in time
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The initial premise of the journey (and the book) was to follow Agatha Christie's journey over land from the UK to Baghdad but the story turned into so much more. This book didnt cover just one journey by Christie, rather her 'second' life, following her divorce from her first husband and her travels and then life married to the much younger (~13 years younger) Max the archaeologist.
Christie was the premise, but not the main focus of the book. This was the countries the author travelled through, including the Baltic countries (a decade after being bombed into submission by Nato) through to Iraq (in the days leading up to the bombing by, you guessed it, Nato, in the initial days on the post-9/11 invasion to oust Saddam). Much is also given to the people he meets and travels with and the factions that develop when English people in particular travel together.
I rarely read/listen to non-fiction books that cover topics still so fresh in everyone's mind, but this book does not suffer. Eames is sympathetic to the peoples he meets (bar the English he travels with!), and is a decent narrator, which makes things all the easier to listen to
Agatha...and beyond
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