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Title: Thrilling Travels
Review: Delightfully piquant, unsentimental yet surprisingly warm, wry to the point of hilarity, and very sharply seen, the collected articles of Fleming's round-the-world whirl courtesy of the Sunday Times is a treasure as well as a time capsule, of a world long gone and a writer whose sumptuous prose is itself an anthropology of unrepentant post-modern snobbery. A full-out reissue with commentary, perhaps on each chapter (Michael Palin and Christopher Hitchens come blazing to mind) is long overdue; we should all celebrate the reissue in this Centenary Year of Fleming's birth. (And, spare us cries of antiquity - Graham Greene's Journey W/O Maps and Lawrence's Sea & Sardinia are hopelessly out of date as well, but remain excellent reads not to mention documents of their vanished time and place.)
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