The Grand Tour : Letters and Photographs from the British Empire Expedition 1922
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Vydavatel: | Harper Collins UK |
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Publikováno: | 2013 |
Formát: | paperback 400 stran |
Anotace
Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie's extensive and evocative
letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to
South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of
the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In
1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a 10-month voyage around the
British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to
promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition. Leaving her
two-year-old daughter behind with her sister, Agatha set sail at
the end of January and did not return until December, but she kept
up a detailed weekly correspondence with her mother, describing in
detail the exotic places and people she encountered as the mission
travelled through South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii and
Canada. The extensive and previously unpublished letters are
accompanied by hundreds of photos taken on her portable camera as
well as some of the original letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings
and memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip. Edited and
introduced by Agatha Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, this
unique travelogue reveals a new side to Agatha Christie,
demonstrating how her appetite for exotic plots and locations for
her books began with this eye-opening trip, which took place just
after only her second novel had been published (the first leg of
the tour to South Africa is very clearly the inspiration for the
book she wrote immediately afterwards, The Man in the Brown Suit).
The letters are full of tales of seasickness and sunburn, motor
trips and surf boarding, and encounters with welcoming locals and
overbearing Colonials.
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Knihovnické kódy
- EAN: 9780007460687