Wishful Wednesday (1)

Wishful Wednesday pertama blog Sel-Sel Kelabu sekaligus yang terakhir untuk tahun 2012. Sesuai tema blog, maka buku-buku yang akan ditampilkan di sini masih berhubungan dengan Agatha Christie.

The Grand Tour: Around The World With The Queen of Mystery 

Agatha Christie

(edited by Mathew Prichard)

Harga: $34.28

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Sinopsis: Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters and photographs from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New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The extensive and previously unpublished letters are accompanied by hundreds of photos taken on her portable camera as well as some of the original letters, postcards, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia collected by Agatha on her trip. (Amazon UK)

Perjalanan keliling dunia Agatha Christie yang disebutkan di atas terjadi sebelum ia menulis Death on The Nile dan Murder on The Orient Express. Menurut Mathew Prichard, cucu Agatha yang mengedit dan menerbitkan buku kumpulan surat, surat favoritnya adalah yang dikirimkan Agatha untuk putrinya, Rosalind, yang saat itu baru berusia  3 tahun. Berikut kutipan suratnya yang dibacakan Mathew:

"My darling little girl," he reads, "some butterflies for you from Mummy and Daddy, and a picture of Pretoria, where Mummy and Daddy are. There are no choo-choos ... so they will have to stay there for a long time. Mummy had brought a bottle of burgundy, but now martial law has come, and they have locked it up in the bar."

Saya kepingin banget memiliki buku ini karena penasaran bagaimana cara Agatha bertutur dalam surat-surat pribadinya. Dari contoh surat untuk putrinya, jelas terlihat beliau mampu menggambarkan poin-poin penting perjalanan tersebut dalam paragraf singkat namun mudah dipahami oleh anak berusia 3 tahun.

Seperti biasa, berikut peraturan untuk mengikuti Wishful Wednesday:

1. Silakan follow blog Books To Share – atau tambahkan di blogroll/link blogmu =)
2. Buat posting mengenai buku-buku (boleh lebih dari 1) yang jadi inceran kalian minggu ini, mulai dari yang bakal segera dibeli, sampai yang paling mustahil dan hanya sebatas mimpi. Oya, sertakan juga alasan kenapa buku itu masuk dalam wishlist kalian ya!
3. Tinggalkan link postingan Wishful Wednesday kalian di Mr. Linky (klik saja tombol Mr. Linky di bagian bawah post). Kalau mau, silakan tambahkan button Wishful Wednesday di posting kalian.
4. Mari saling berkunjung ke sesama blogger yang sudah ikut share wishlistnya di hari Rabu =)