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Thrilling Cities
A work of Non-fiction by Ian Fleming
Subgenres:
- Travel Writing,
- Journalism,
- Mid-20th Century
This book is for you if you're into...
- Travel writing that skips tourist traps for underground scenes and shady characters
- Midcentury city snapshots with a flair for intrigue and danger
- Firsthand encounters with celebrities, gangsters and geishas in global hotspots
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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