What is the name of Agatha Christie's travel memoir about Syria?

Agatha Christie’s travel memoir about Syria is titled “Come, Tell Me How You Live.” It is a personal account of archaeological expeditions she undertook with her second husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan.

Christie travelled with Mallowan in Syria and Iraq during the 1930s, often living in demanding field conditions while archaeological teams surveyed and excavated ancient sites. Rather than presenting a formal history of archaeology, the book focuses on daily life: travel, food, local communities, work on the digs and the personalities around the expedition.

The memoir was written during the Second World War and published in 1946 by William Collins in Britain. It appeared under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan, one of the relatively few books she published using both married names. The title comes from the White Knight’s poem in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass.

The book is sometimes mistaken for Christie’s full autobiography, which was published later in 1977. It is instead a focused archaeological and travel memoir, offering background to the Middle Eastern settings that also appear in several of her novels, including Murder in Mesopotamia.