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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 04/04/2013
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ISBN: 9780099578185
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £9.99
On November 2nd armed with a sheaf of visas...one suitcase...and my typewriter, I left humdrum London for the thrilling cities of the world...
In 1959, Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, was commissioned by the Sunday Times to explore fourteen of the world’s most exotic cities. Fleming saw it all with a thriller writer’s eye. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favour of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 04/04/2013
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ISBN: 9780099578185
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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An accomplished travel writer
Scotsman
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He gathered material for his novels like a voracious travelling magpie: the people and places Fleming experienced on his Thrilling Cities tour in 1959 would [furnish] much of the backdrop and research for the five Bond novels and seven short stories that would follow
The Times
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Fleming was a fine travel writer, too (check out Thrilling Cities), and we quickly come to know and appreciate the locales in the book as we do the characters
Daily Telegraph
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Fleming describes food precisely and enticingly
Independent
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[Fleming's] penchant for fast cars, stylish hotels, expensive alcohol and bizarre encounters brings a whiff of excitement to the narrative, which is vivid, shocking and exuberant by turns
Good Book Guide
