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I am pleased to report that The Peregrine Falcon arrives on April 28 from Schiffer Books, the folks who did such a beautiful job with my illustrated biography of the real James Bond. The 240-page book is a deep dive...
Carroll Tyson, the real James Bond’s uncle, was a noted artist, and his portfolio of 20 fine-arts prints of the birds of Mount Desert Island is still prized and highly collectible. A print of Tyson’s Great Grey Owl, for instance,...
Wonder why the colophon for lan Fleming Publications features a bird, and what kind of bird it is? For the answers, look no farther than For Your Eyes Only, arguably the best short story in the 1960 compilation of the...
My long-time blog provider, Typepad, has gone out of business, and I’m switching to WordPress. I’m migrating this blog’s contents, learning the ropes, and adding content. Please bear with me.
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...
Jim and Mary Bond’s place on Mount Desert Island is up for sale. Just saw it on the Forbes website, which includes a nice reference to my book, “The Real James Bond,” for Schiffer Publishing. To be...
I’m back from a whirlwind trip to Maine’s MDI, where I gave a couple of talks about The Real James Bond, donated some Bond-related books and ephemera to two the Friends of Acadia and the Mount Desert Island Historical Society...