Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir

Come, Tell Me How You Live: An Archaeological Memoir
Agatha Christie

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.

AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN

Come, Tell Me How You Live

With an Introduction

by Jacquetta Hawkes

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Source ISBN: 9780008129460

Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN: 9780007487202

Version: 2017-04-11

To my husband, Max Mallowan; to the Colonel, Bumps, Mac and Guilford, this meandering chronicle is affectionately dedicated

Contents

Cover (#u7d8d698f-83b9-5d3b-ab22-950248c50a05)

Title Page (#ubc8b9d98-411d-507a-ac67-e2018a8659d4)

Copyright (#u36b1a077-2756-517e-83b0-218f974b2902)

Dedication (#u179851c7-beb3-52fe-af85-4b7902b4d910)

Introduction (#ue7345517-261d-5013-a228-c26b0d909e96)

A-Sitting on a Tell (#uf980f0bd-ae5b-5676-bcac-41ab3bef0f22)

Foreword (#ua649bfdc-5e04-58dd-a932-1428f7b973f0)

CHAPTER 1: Partant Pour la Syrie (#ue4cf9b5e-bf6e-5ecc-b421-034539a5df4f)

CHAPTER 2: A Surveying Trip (#uca8c474d-372e-5262-b286-c234399f99a1)

CHAPTER 3: The Habur and the Jaghjagha (#ubdcfa6a8-a59d-56bb-9df0-43d57ecd14ae)

CHAPTER 4: First Season at Chagar Bazar (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 5: Fin de Saison (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 6: Journey’s End (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 7: Life at Chagar Bazar (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 8: Chagar and Brak (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 9: Arrival of Mac (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 10: The Trail to Raqqa (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 11: Good-Bye to Brak (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER 12: ’Ain el ’Arus (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue (#litres_trial_promo)

Plate Section (#litres_trial_promo)

Back Ads (#litres_trial_promo)

Footnotes (#litres_trial_promo)