Matthew Parker
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Amid the lush beauty of Jamaica's northern coast lies the true story of Ian Fleming's iconic creation: James Bond.For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen 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. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here.This book explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation...
6) Goldeneye
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For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen 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. All the James Bond novels and stories were written here.
This book explores the huge influence of Jamaica on the creation of Fleming's iconic post-war hero. The island was for Fleming part retreat from the world, part tangible representation...
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At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland.
When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America's wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of English gentlemen expelled from...
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To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent, dramatic, and shocking history. For some two hundred years after 1650, the West Indies became the strategic center of the Western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold."As Matthew...
10) Metamorphosis
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They have several lives, several forms, and they know many worlds. They are insects. They lived underwater, they will walk the earth for centuries to come. They were crawling, they will fly. They waited underground, they will climb into the sky. Metamorphosis reveals the story of a larva that couldn't resist an irresistible call. Cicada, swallowtail, dragonfly, ant, mosquito: our brave heroines will go through the scariest moment of their life to...
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Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord have never forsaken those who seek you Psalm 9: 10. Grace brings life from disaster and hope from despair, when we desire the Lord as much as a desert animal desires water, he is there. Faith gives us the courage to live what we say and say what we live, Prayer takes us into the presence of the Lord, who forgives us, and calls us to forgive. No matter what you've done, no matter how far you...
