She and her husband, Archie, embarked on a year-long voyage as part of a promotional trade mission, so there was work involved as well as various obligations as they visited South Africa, New Zealand, Hawaii and Canada. This collection is an insight into the thoughts and mind of a young Agatha Christie who had just published two novels and would later become the most widely published author of all time. Most of the letters were sent to her mother and included photos taken with Christie’s own camera as well as newspaper clippings and various memorabilia. So, when she left Sydney New South Wales Australia, I suspect Agatha sailed into Launceston Tasmania Australia.Ī book reviewer at : remarked “ The Grand Tour is a fascinating collection of never before published letters and photographs detailing Christie’s travels around the British Empire in 1922. Tasmania is still part of Australia, even though it is a large island to the south.

She was also making a typical mistake that some mainlanders and most international tourists make. From Hobart we went to New Zealand.” Agatha Christie is, of course, referring to the expansive harbour on the sea end of Tasmania’s Derwent River.

I planned to come back and live there one day. Incredibly beautiful Hobart, with its deep blue sea and harbour, and its flowers, trees and shrubs. In this book we can read “ From Australia we went to Tasmania, driving from Launceston to Hobart. The correspondence of her travels has been collated into the publication The Grand Tour: Around the World with the Queen of Mystery. I would be surprised if you cannot access something on the internet. Her travels helped flesh out details for many of her ‘who-done-it’ mysteries.įor those of my blog followers who have not been devotees of Hercule Poirot, I recommend you read Agatha Christie’s story of Death on the Nile written in 1937, visit the theatre to see Murder on the Nile the 1944 play based on the novel, or watch anyone of the many films that have been produced based on this story. Previously she had spent time in Egypt with her mother in 1910. In 1922, the now-world renowned detective fiction novelist Agatha Christie took herself on a ten-month Grand Tour of the British empire, including South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. The Nile River in Africa and the Derwent River in Tasmania Australia.

The Grand Tour by Agatha Christie