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    Thrilling Cities
    Thrilling Cities
    Thrilling Cities
    Audiobook9 hours

    Thrilling Cities

    Written by Ian Fleming

    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards

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    Gildrose Productions Ltd. 1962
    Copyright 1959, 1960 by Thomson Newspapers Ltd.
    Introduction Copyright © Jan Morris 2009

    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. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateApr 5, 2018
    ISBN9781528812443
    Thrilling Cities
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    Ian Fleming

    Ian Fleming - famous across the globe for creating James Bond - loved cars. And the faster the car, the better. It was this love that inspired him to write his only children's book - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car - about a car that could fly. Fast. He wrote it for his little boy, Caspar, when Fleming was recovering from a heart attack and his wife had hidden his typewriter to force him to rest. He wrote it secretly and in longhand, eventually sending it to his bemused editor who had been expecting a new Bond novel. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, published just after Fleming's death, became an immediate bestseller. It has been reinvented as a musical and as a film (with the screenplay written by Roald Dahl). It is a jewel in the crown of children's fiction in the UK and across the world.

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