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Unpublished for 90 years Agatha Christies extensive and evocative letters from her yearlong roundtheworld trip to South Africa Australia New Zealand Canada and America as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 10month voyage around the British Empire with her husband as part of a trade mission to promote the forthcoming British Empire Exhibition Leaving her twoyearold 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The extensive and previously unpublished letters are accompanied by some of the original letters collected by Agatha on her trip
Edited and introduced by Agatha Christies grandson Matthew 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 eyeopening 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
The Grand Tour is a book steeped in history sure to fascinate anyone interested in the lost world of the 1920s Coming from the pen of Britains biggest literary export and the worlds most widely translated author it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie and is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans
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