Thrilling Cities
Fourteen Cities Seen Through the Eyes of Ian Fleming, the Creator of James Bond
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Ian Fleming
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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, 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.
©1959, 1960, 1962, 2009 Thomson Newspapers Ltd, Gildrose Productions Ltd, Jan Morris (P)2024 HarperCollins PublishersLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Talk of the Devil
- The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming
- De: Ian Fleming
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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Ian Fleming was best known for bringing to life the legendary character of James Bond, one of the most beloved and enduring icons of our time, but he was perhaps even more interesting than his creation. His career in Naval Intelligence and extensive travels around the world gave Fleming a keen eye and the authority to write on a wide range of topics beyond Bond’s adventures. This collection contains a selection of journalism and other writings by Fleming, covering his wartime experiences, reflections on crime and espionage, and the process of writing his novels, among other topics.
De: Ian Fleming
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Leave It as It Is
- A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt's American Wilderness
- De: David Gessner
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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“Leave it as it is,” Theodore Roosevelt announced while viewing the Grand Canyon for the first time. “The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.” Roosevelt’s pronouncement signaled the beginning of an environmental fight that still wages today. To reconnect with the American wilderness and with the president who courageously protected it, acclaimed nature writer and New York Times best-selling author David Gessner embarks on a great American road trip guided by Roosevelt’s crusading environmental legacy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Ugh, Not at All What I'd Hoped For
- De Glenn R. Nelson en 11-20-21
De: David Gessner
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The Eagles of Heart Mountain
- A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America
- De: Bradford Pearson
- Narrado por: Feodor Chin
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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In the spring of 1942, the United States government forced 120,000 Japanese Americans from their homes in California, Oregon, Washington, and Arizona and sent them to incarceration camps across the West. Nearly 14,000 of them landed on the outskirts of Cody, Wyoming, at the base of Heart Mountain. Behind barbed wire fences, they faced racism, cruelty, and frozen winters. Trying to recreate comforts from home, they established Buddhist temples and sumo wrestling pits. Kabuki performances drew hundreds of spectators — yet there was little hope.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I wanted to like it
- De Happy Mountain en 06-04-22
De: Bradford Pearson
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Finale
- Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
- De: D.T. Max
- Narrado por: Christopher Grove, Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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In 2017, New Yorker staff writer D.T. Max began working on a major profile of Stephen Sondheim that would be timed to the eventual premiere of a new musical Sondheim was writing. Sadly , that process – and the years of conversation – was cut short by Sondheim’s own hesitations, then the global pandemic, and finally by the great artist’s death in November 2021.
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5 out of 5 stars
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That's happily ever after, Ever, ever, ever after For now
- De JoeGato57 en 11-02-24
De: D.T. Max
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Craigslist Confessional
- A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous Strangers
- De: Helena Dea Bala
- Narrado por: Full Cast
- Duración: 8 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 46
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Helena Dea Bala was an exhausted and isolated DC lobbyist, suffocating under the weight of her student loan debt, when she decided to split her lunch with a man who often panhandled near her office. They chatted effortlessly as they ate; there were no half-truths, no fear of judgment. Helena felt connected and unburdened in a way she hadn’t in years. Inspired, she posted an ad on Craigslist promising to listen, anonymously and for free, to whatever the speaker felt he or she couldn’t tell anyone else. Emails from people desperate to connect flooded her inbox, and she listened.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Depressing
- De Brett W. en 03-01-21
De: Helena Dea Bala
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Fight of the Century
- Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
- De: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
- Narrado por: an all-star cast
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s 100-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in - Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona - need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Nancy B en 10-06-20
De: Michael Chabon - editor, y otros
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Run the Storm
- De: George Michelsen Foy
- Narrado por: L. J. Ganser
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 131
On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a cargo ship tall as a hundred-story building that made a regular run between Jacksonville, Florida, and Puerto Rico, delivering everything from razor blades to new Chevrolet cars, disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin, a category 4 storm. The ship, her hundreds of shipping containers, and her entire crew sank to the bottom of the ocean, three miles down. The sinking was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to survive this book
- De Kindle Customer en 09-15-18
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James Bond: The Authorised Biography
- A James Bond Adventure
- De: John Pearson
- Narrado por: David Rintoul
- Duración: 10 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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It was a strong face, certainly—the eyes pale grey and very cold, the mouth was hard, the dark hair-grey-streaked now—still fell in the authentic comma over the forehead. This is how John Pearson reacted to his first encounter with the real James Bond, an encounter probably unique in the annals of thriller writing. He went on to write the bestselling authorized biography of Ian Fleming. At the time, like most of the world he assumed that James Bond was nothing more than a character in Fleming's highly charged imagination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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For bond fans only
- De Charles Singer en 07-02-24
De: John Pearson
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Walls
- A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
- De: David Frye
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 9 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great Narration, Ok History, Unwelcome Opinions
- De jack a en 02-17-25
De: David Frye
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The Spy Who Was Left Behind
- De: Michael Pullara
- Narrado por: Michael Pullara
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 123
On August 8, 1993, a single bullet to the head killed Freddie Woodruff, the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Within hours, police had a suspect - a vodka-soaked village bumpkin named Anzor Sharmaidze. A tidy explanation quickly followed: It was a tragic accident. US diplomats hailed Georgia’s swift work. Yet the bullet that killed Woodruff was never found, and key witnesses have since retracted their testimony, saying they were beaten and forced to identify Sharmaidze. But if he didn’t do it, who did?
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book needs a hires narrator
- De Blake Dahl en 11-17-18
De: Michael Pullara
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Blood Moon
- De: John Sedgwick
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 17 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 149
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Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. While little remembered today, their mutual hatred shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew Jackson, ever did.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Real Story
- De CLS en 04-17-18
De: John Sedgwick
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The Forbidden Daughter
- The True Story of a Holocaust Survivor
- De: Zipora Klein Jakob
- Narrado por: Robin Siegerman
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Elida Friedman was not supposed to have been born. In the Kovno Ghetto in Lithuania, Nazi law forbade Jewish women from giving birth. Yet, despite the fear of death, Dr. Jonah Friedman and his wife Tzila choose to bring a daughter into the world, a little girl they name Elida—meaning non-birth in Hebrew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Born in Fire, Died in Fire, Elida✡️ 💙🇮🇱🇺🇸💙✡️
- De michael petro en 11-10-24
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Dead Doubles
- The Extraordinary Worldwide Hunt for One of the Cold War’s Most Notorious Spy Rings
- De: Trevor Barnes
- Narrado por: William Gaminara
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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The astonishing but true story of one of the most notorious spy cases from the Cold War—and the international manhunt that seized global attention as it revealed the shadowy world of deep cover KGB operatives. Based on new archival material and inside sources from around the world, Dead Doubles follows the hunt for the highly damaging Portland Spy Ring. This incredible narrative, layered with false identities, deceptions, and betrayal, crisscrosses from the UK to the USSR to the US and New Zealand, and brings to life one of the most extraordinary spy stories of the Cold War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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For Spy Junkies
- De P.Adler en 08-30-21
De: Trevor Barnes
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The Explorers
- A New History of America in Ten Expeditions
- De: Amanda Bellows
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Leon Nixon
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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The archetype of the American explorer, a rugged white man, has dominated our popular culture since the late eighteenth century, when Daniel Boone’s autobiography captivated readers with tales of treacherous journeys. But our commonly held ideas about American exploration do not tell the whole story—far from it. The Explorers rediscovers a diverse group of Americans who went to the western frontier and beyond, traversing the farthest reaches of the globe and even penetrating outer space in their endeavor to find the unknown.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Needs a different title
- De Madyson Chance en 07-06-24
De: Amanda Bellows
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Operation Pedestal
- The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942
- De: Max Hastings
- Narrado por: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Renowned historian Max Hastings recreates one of the most thrilling events of World War II: Operation Pedestal, the British action to save its troops from starvation on Malta - an action-packed tale of courage, fortitude, loss, and triumph against all odds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sir Max Hastings at his best
- De J.Brock en 10-27-22
De: Max Hastings
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The Day It Finally Happens
- Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena
- De: Mike Pearl
- Narrado por: Mike Pearl
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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From a VICE magazine columnist, "a deeply entertaining - if occasionally horrifying" (Joshua Piven, coauthor of The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook) look at how humanity is likely to weather such happenings as nuclear war, a global internet collapse, antibiotics shortages, and even immortality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun read
- De Nick en 12-31-19
De: Mike Pearl