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  • The Grand Tour

  • Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
  • 著者: Agatha Christie
  • ナレーター: Fenella Woolgar
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The Grand Tour

著者: Agatha Christie
ナレーター: Fenella Woolgar
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批評家のレビュー

"A compelling, entertaining and joyful read. It is the people she meets along the way for whom she saves her best prose…. It is they, and her wonderful descriptions of them, that make this book as enjoyable as any of her novels." (Sunday Express)

"The 32-year-old Agatha is confident, full of laughter and sharply observant. She misses none of the local gossip.... We can see an author gathering material for future use—the courting couples, elderly clergymen, spinsters, male secretaries, gouty ex-army officers and vamps with kohl-ringed eyes, who form Agatha Christie’s typical cast of characters. The long sea voyages, sleeping compartments and dining cars will become the train in Murder on the Orient Express or the paddle steamer in Death on the Nile." (Daily Mail)

あらすじ・解説

Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and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The extensive and previously unpublished letters are accompanied by some of the original letters collected by Agatha on her trip.

Edited and introduced by Agatha Christie’s 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 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.

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 Britain’s biggest literary export and the world’s most widely translated author, it is also a fitting tribute to Agatha Christie and is sure to fascinate her legions of worldwide fans.

©2022 Agatha Christie Limited (P)2022 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

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