Peter Fleming: A Biography
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Peter Fleming — traveller, journalist, soldier, and brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming — led one of the twentieth century's most restlessly adventurous lives, and Duff Hart-Davis captures every extraordinary dimension of it in this authoritative biography. From Fleming's daring expeditions through Brazil and Central Asia to his wartime service in military intelligence, Hart-Davis chronicles a man whose appetite for danger and discovery was matched only by his gift for writing about it with wit and precision. Hart-Davis draws on intimate access to Fleming's personal papers and the recollections of those who knew him, presenting a portrait that is both meticulously researched and compulsively readable. The biography illuminates the paradox at the heart of Fleming's character — a man of great public bravado who remained intensely private — and raises a tantalising question: how does a man who lived so fully manage to remain so elusive?
Author: Duff Hart-Davis
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Peter Fleming — traveller, journalist, soldier, and brother of James Bond creator Ian Fleming — led one of the twentieth century's most restlessly adventurous lives, and Duff Hart-Davis captures every extraordinary dimension of it in this authoritative biography. From Fleming's daring expeditions through Brazil and Central Asia to his wartime service in military intelligence, Hart-Davis chronicles a man whose appetite for danger and discovery was matched only by his gift for writing about it with wit and precision. Hart-Davis draws on intimate access to Fleming's personal papers and the recollections of those who knew him, presenting a portrait that is both meticulously researched and compulsively readable. The biography illuminates the paradox at the heart of Fleming's character — a man of great public bravado who remained intensely private — and raises a tantalising question: how does a man who lived so fully manage to remain so elusive?