The 8:55 to Baghdad
By: Andrew Eames.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Woodstock, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Christie, Agatha, -- 1890-1976 -- Knowledge -- Middle East.; Christie, Agatha, -- 1890-1976 -- Travel -- Iraq.; Eames, Andrew, -- 1958- -- Travel -- Iraq.; Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.; British -- Iraq -- History -- 20th century.; Railroad travel -- Middle East.; Railroad travel -- Europe.; Middle East -- Description and travel.; Iraq -- Description and travel.; Middle East -- In literature.; Iraq -- In literature.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Eight fifty-five to Baghdad
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 391) and index.
Table of contents: title: Encounter in Aleppo; title: The 8.55 to Baghdad; title: The longest train in Europe; title: Intermezzo Triestino; title: Republic of vegetable patches; title: City of inner demons; title: Love and death among the Serbs; title: Tsar Boris and the Black Sea; title: Travel, the cure for all ignorance; title: Hubble-bubble on the Toros Ekspresi; title: Return to the Baron; title: Three days in Damascus; title: The road to Baghdad; title: Saddam City; title: Nineveh, Jonah and Lucifer; title: Incident at Ur; title: The garden of Eden.