Thrilling Cities: Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond -- Ian Fleming, Paperback
A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND
Ian Fleming's world travels and interests, as well as his journalism and wartime experiences, lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world's most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author's Bond canon.
From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world from a twentieth century Western perspective.
Just like his most famous fictional creation, Ian Fleming was a well-traveled man of the world who knew where to go to find excitement, adventure...and danger. In Thrilling Cities, he takes us along on a journey of international intrigue worthy of James Bond.
Author: Ian Fleming
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 05/21/2024
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.31w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780063299146
Product Tags:
Asia, Cities and towns, East, Essays, Essays & Travelogues, Ian Fleming, Literary Collections, Paperback, Travel, Travel - General, William Morrow Imprint of HarperCollins PubliContact form
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