The 8:55 to Baghdad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The 8:55 to Baghdad write by Andrew Eames. This book was released on 2006-05-02. The 8:55 to Baghdad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A winning blend of travelogue and literary biography” by a British journalist who travels the journey Agatha Christie once did from London to Iraq. (Entertainment Weekly) With her marriage to her first husband over, Agatha Christie decided to take a much needed holiday; the Caribbean had been her intended destination, but a conversation at a dinner party with a couple who had just returned from Iraq changed her mind. Five days later she was off on a completely different trajectory. Merging literary biography with travel adventure, and ancient history with contemporary world events, Andrew Eames tells a riveting tale and reveals fascinating and little-known details of this exotic chapter in the life of Agatha Christie. His own trip from London to Baghdad--a journey much more difficult to make in 2002 with the political unrest in the Middle East and the war in Iraq, than it was in 1928--becomes intertwined with Agatha's, and the people he meets could have stepped out of a mystery novel. Fans of Agatha Christie will delight in Eames' description of the places and events that appeared in and influenced her fiction--and armchair travelers will thrill in the exotica of the journey itself. “Agatha Christie fans, as well as connoisseurs of fine travel writing, will relish British journalist Eames's gripping, humorous and eye-opening account of his train and bus trip across Europe and the Middle East on the eve of the second Gulf War.” Publisher’s Weekly Second;Iraq;Gulf;war;Kurds;Armenians;Palestinians;English;travel;writer;writing;1928;bestselling;mystery;author;English;crime;writer;Europe;passenger;train;memoir;literary;biography;adventure;travel;history;autobiography;holiday;Middle;East;Damascus;Ur;Syria;archaeology TRV026090 TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary BIO007000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures BIO026000 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs TRV015000 TRAVEL / Middle East / General 9781468306415 Candlemoth Ellory, R.J.
Capital Cities of Arab Islam
Capital Cities of Arab Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital Cities of Arab Islam write by Philip Khuri Hitti. This book was released on 1973-01-01. Capital Cities of Arab Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Middle Ages
The Middle Ages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Middle Ages write by Frank N. Magill. This book was released on 2012-11-12. The Middle Ages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.
The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 1
The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 1 write by . This book was released on 2015-06-10. The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume I of the thirty-eight volume translation of Ṭabarī's great History begins with the creation of the world and ends with the time of Noah and the Flood. It not only brings a vast amount of speculation about the early history of mankind into sharp Muslim focus, but it also synchronizes ancient Iranian ideas about the prehistory of mankind with those inspired by the Qur'an and the Bible. The volume is thus an excellent guide to the cosmological views of many of Ṭabarī's contemporaries. The translator, Franz Rosenthal, one of the world's foremost scholars of Arabic, has also written an extensive introduction to the volume that presents all the facts known about Ṭabarī's personal and professional life. Professor Rosenthal's meticulous and original scholarship has yielded a valuable bibliography and chronology of Ṭabarī's writings, both those preserved in manuscript and those alluded to by other authors. The introduction and first volume of the translation of the History form a ground-breaking contribution to Islamic historiography in English and will prove to be an invaluable source of information for those who are interested in Middle Eastern history but are unable to read the basic works in Arabic.
Up the Tigris to Bagdad
Up the Tigris to Bagdad - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Up the Tigris to Bagdad write by Frederick Charles Webb. This book was released on 1870. Up the Tigris to Bagdad available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
