Goldeneye: where Bond was born Ian Fleming's Jamaica
by Parker, Matthew.
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BookPublisher: Windmill Books 2015ISBN: 9780099591740; 009959174X.Classification number: 823.914 FLESubject(s): Fleming 1908-1964 -- Homes and haunts -- Jamaica | Authors, English -- 20th century -- Homes and haunts -- Jamaica | Bond, James (Fictitious character) | James Bond films | Jamaica -- Description and travelSubject: For two months of every year, from 1946 to his death 18 years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. This book tells the story of Fleming's time on this extraordinary island and explores how its spirit - its exoticism, its unpredictable danger, its melancholy, its love of exaggeration and gothic melodrama - infused Fleming's novels and led to his greatest creation of all: James Bond.
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Includes bibliographical references and index
For two months of every year, from 1946 to his death 18 years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point of high land overlooking a small white sand beach on Jamaica's stunning north coast. This book tells the story of Fleming's time on this extraordinary island and explores how its spirit - its exoticism, its unpredictable danger, its melancholy, its love of exaggeration and gothic melodrama - infused Fleming's novels and led to his greatest creation of all: James Bond.
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