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Mallowan's Memoirs - Agatha and the Archaeologist (Paperback)
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Mallowan's Memoirs - Agatha and the Archaeologist (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 2 280
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Agatha Christie's widower's recollections of his archaeological
triumphs and life with Agatha. In these informal, often witty and
always interesting memoirs, Sir Max Mallowan tells the story of his
life, from his boyhood at Lancing where he was a contemporary of
Evelyn Waugh, to the days when he was elected a Fellow of All Souls
and succeeded another eminent archaeologist, his friend Sir
Mortimer Wheeler, as a Trustee of the British Museum. The author
was initiated into field archaeology at Ur by Leonard Woolley in
1925, and it was Woolley who first introduced him to a visiting
novelist, Agatha Christie. After further excavations, Sir Max began
working independently in Assyria, to which he returned each year
until the outbreak of war. In 1939 he joined the Royal Air Force
and was involved in several eccentric exploits before volunteering
to go the Middle East where he filled various outlandish posts with
skill and aplomb. Throughout the pre-war years, the author was
accompanied on all his digs by Agatha Christie, who was not only a
delightful companion and organizer of creature comforts, but also
took an active part in the photography, recording and preservation
of the finds: some of the humorous odes she composed about her
colleagues are included in these pages. Following the account of
his wartime activities, Sir Max devotes four chapters to his wife's
achievements as a supreme craftsman in puzzling and holding under
her spell innumerable readers, audiences and film-goers throughout
the world. The climax of the memoirs is suitably concerned with the
author's triumphant discoveries at Nimrud or Calah, the ancient
capital of Assyria. Photographs of his most attractive finds are
included among the excellent illustrations to this book.
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