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Thrilling Cities
Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James BondBy Ian FlemingNarrated by Barnaby EdwardsLength9h 7m
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A CAPTIVATING JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE CREATOR OF JAMES BOND, BROUGH TO LIFE WITH BARNABY EDWARDS' ENGAGING NARRATION.
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.
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Rating★★★★ 3.7 (1.6K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon, LibraryThing, StoryGraph
GenreTravel, Literary Classics
Length9 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byBarnaby Edwards
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 24, 2024
LanguageEnglish
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