{"id":2156,"date":"2016-10-06T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T14:32:06","slug":"ian-flemings-midcentury-jamaica-james-bond-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/inspirations\/styles\/retro\/ian-flemings-midcentury-jamaica-james-bond-born\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Fleming\u2019s midcentury Jamaica: Where James Bond Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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James Bond<\/strong><\/em>\u2014symbol of mid-century masculinity\u2014was created, somewhat ironically, in the throes of author Ian Fleming\u2019s first year of marriage. The playboy often quipped that he started writing Casino Royale\u00a0to take his mind off the \u201chideous spectre of matrimony,\u201d though his wife Ann was said to be the one who really prodded him to action during those languorous days they first spent together on a secluded stretch of Jamaica\u2019s north coast. Within a small concrete house, backed by banana groves and high above a white sand beach, the Bond legacy began.<\/p>\n

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So the story goes in Matthew Parker\u2019s Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming\u2019s Jamaica (Pegasus Books), a new addition to the Bond canon. Part biography, part travelogue, Goldeneyeis a kind of mature tell-all that combines Fleming\u2019s past\u2014and all its booze-soaked details\u2014with a historian\u2019s careful dissection of the decline of the British Empire and the emergence of the 1950s jet-set. Jamaica was a crossroads for Fleming, and in turn, 007; the author spent two months every year on the island, from 1946 to his death in 1964, swimming and carousing with his neighbor No\u00ebl Coward. In his quieter moments, Fleming wrote the Bond novels and short stories at Goldeneye, his seaside home. Britain may play a starring role in Bond\u2019s life, but Jamaica takes a close second.<\/p>\n

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Fans of the spy series will love how Parker details the island\u2019s cameos in both film and fiction. InThunderball,007\u2019s night dives are largely inspired by Fleming\u2019s Ahab-style hunts for barracudas off Goldeneye\u2019s reef. Meanwhile, Live and Let Diewas shot at \u201cthe Ruins restaurant, the Green Grotto caves, in Montego Bay, Runaway Bay, Falmouth, and Rose Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Indeed, when you read Parker\u2019s sudsy recreation of island living\u2014all the \u201cdrinking, bed hopping, and luxurious excess\u201d\u2014Bond\u2019s m.o. starts to make a lot of sense. By the early 1950s, Jamaica was welcoming a steady stream of high-end travelers; Errol Flynn led the silver-screen parade, followed by the British aristocracy and \u201cthe brightest and richest\u201d in the United States and Europe. \u201cYou weren\u2019t a proper Hollywood star until you had been photographed in Jamaica,\u201d writes Parker. Bond ran in the same social circle. It was a new era, and as Parker so perfectly sums up, Bond was its hero.<\/p>\n

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