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Pieces of the Past:
A Stroll Down Jamaica’s
Memory Lane
IAN FLEMING
...in 1946 Fleming purchased land in Oracabessa,
St. Mary, which had once been a donkey
racecourse and designed a house he called
Goldeneye. It had no hot water, no air conditioning
and no glass windows but that was
exactly how Fleming wanted it and he began
to spend every winter there and wrote.
While waiting for his bride to join him, Fleming
wrote Casino Royale (1952) on his Remington
typewriter and in it introduced the world
to the suave agent 007. Fleming named his
characters and places for people and places
he knew. James Bond came from the author
of the ornithological classic Birds of the
West Indies and M, 007’s boss, was a tribute
to Fleming’s own rocky relationship with his
mother.
Over the next 12 years Fleming would draw on
his own experiences, fascination with military
gadgets, sharp wit and his dry arrogance to
create the most successful action hero ever
known.
Although he wrote all 13 James Bond novels
in Jamaica, only three, ‘Dr. No’, ‘Live and Let
Die’ and ‘The Man with the
Golden Gun’ had parts set
on the island specifically in
downtown Kingston, Negril,
Frome and Savanna-la-Mar.
Excerpt from Rebecca Tortello’s Pieces
of the Past: A Stroll Down Jamaica’s
Memory Lane