Ian Fleming: Thrilling Cities, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Thrilling Cities
- Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins, 11/2025
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063445703
- Item number:
- 12262638
- Volume:
- 352 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 229 x 152 mm
- Thickness:
- 20 mm
- Release date:
- 4.11.2025
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
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, theSunday 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.
Biography
Ian Fleming, geboren 1908 in London als Sohn eines Bankiers, Studium der Paychologie in München und Genf. 1933 Korrespondent für die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters nach Moskau, im Zweiten Weltkrieges hochrangiger Verbindungsoffizier beim britischen Geheimdienst. 1952 erschuf er die legendäre Heldenfigur des Geheimagenten James Bond, am 13. April 1953 erschien mit "Casino Royale" der erste Roman dieser Erfolgsserie, gesamt wurden 14 Bond-Romane verfasst. Der Autor verstarb 1964.
