The Free Library of Philadelphia has extensive archives donated by Mary Bond and (far more recently) by me. As a result of my extensive research into my book, I’ve come across several places where you can learn more about the
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I am pleased to announce that the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia will soon make available to researchers the collection of real James Bond, Mary Bond, and Ian Fleming books and memorabilia that I recently donated.
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Just in time for the opening of the new 007 movie “No Time to Die,” New Center Maine’s Beth McEvoy did a terrific interview with me about the real Bond, 007, Ian Fleming and the real Bond’s love for Maine
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Had a great time talking about Jim Bond and Caribbean conservation last week — with a lot about coral reefs, sandy beaches and the fish that Bond collected for science. The webinar, sponsored by The Nature Conservancy on New
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One of the highlights of my trip to Cuba in 2016 was meeting the great ornithologist Orlando Garrido. I met him as part of a group of birders who visited Cuba with the Caribbean Conservation Trust. The biggest reason for
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In my Zoom talk for the Linnaean Society earlier this week, I noted that the ornithologist James Bond also spoke to the group — at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC on April 11, 1944. Turns out that
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While visiting the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week, I checked out the updated Real James Bond display. (Bond worked there for over six decades.) It’s terrific, right down to the West Indies bird calls that I wish
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Last spring, Gary Markowski of the Caribbean Conservation Trust was viewing James Prosek’s exhibit “Art, Artifact, Artifice” at the Yale Art Gallery. As he studied one of the works closely (it’s also on the cover of Prosek’s new book, photo
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One of my goals in writing “The Real James Bond” was to correct many of the common misperceptions about the real James Bond (like the factoid that Bond gave Fleming to use his name), and to improve upon the usual
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The real James Bond loved birds and the West Indies, and he was an advocate for protecting them both — especially preaching the need to end the slaughter of rare species in the Caribbean. The headline above was from an
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