Book description
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.
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Agatha Christie is best known for her murder mystery stories but there was much more to the ‘Queen of Crime’.
She accompanied her archaeologist husband, Max Mallowan, on his digs in Iraq and Syria. Rather than sit back and think up puzzles for Poirot to solve, she became the official dig photographer, taking and developing images of the discoveries. She also helped clean, catalogue, and piece together the ancient artifacts.
Come, Tell Me How You Live is an account of her time on the digs. The book is self-deprecating, charming, and funny. I have spent a lot of time reading…
The title sums up what archaeologists are trying to do when they excavate a site. In this short book, Agatha Christie provides ‘an inconsequent chronicle’ of five archaeological field seasons in Mesopotamia in the 1930s, in the course of which she gently and wittily reveals a picture of the British working abroad between the Wars – a way of working that now seems as distant as the period she was uncovering.
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