James Bond Destinations

" When James Bond saved the world for the first time on the big screen, in 1962’s Dr. No, he was setting a cinematic standard: 007 would forever be a travelling secret agent. He reports for duty in London but is quickly dispatched to Jamaica, to fight evil in paradise. Since those sugary-sand beaches, subsequent films have taken the spy to an atlas’ worth of places around the globe, from soaring monasteries in Meteora and baroque Venetian palazzos to marble palaces in India and ancient Egyptian temples. While other productions rely on studio soundstages, the settings of the Bond motion pictures have included more than a hundred real-life locations over sixty years. In James Bond Destinations, readers are taken to many of the franchise’s iconic locations that feature in Bond’s jet-set, international itineraries. Each chapter is filled with insider insights and memorable scenes. Think Ursula Andress emerging from the Jamaican waves, Daniel Craig on a high-speed car chase through the stre