The Rajah's Emerald was written 20 years before the Bond books came out. Coincidence?
2006-08-26 05:47:44 · 3 answers · asked by Deathly Hallows Freak 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Commander James Bond, CMG, RNVR is an agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). He was created in February 1952 by Ian Fleming while on vacation at his Jamaican estate called Goldeneye. The hero of Fleming's tale, James Bond, was named after an American ornithologist of the same name who was an expert on Caribbean birds and had written a definitive book on the subject: Birds of the West Indies. Fleming, a keen birdwatcher, owned a copy of Bond's field guide at Goldeneye. Of the name, Fleming once said,
"I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, James Bond was much better than something more interesting like 'Peregrine Maltravers.' Exotic things would happen to and around him but he would be a neutral figure — an anonymous blunt instrument wielded by a Government Department. [1]
2006-08-26 05:56:52 · answer #1 · answered by Otis F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Complete coincidence.
Ian Fleming got the name from an ornithologist whose book he'd read.
2006-08-26 05:50:30 · answer #2 · answered by Claude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read somewhere that he took it from an author of a book on ornithology he had lying around his house on Emerald Bay in Jamaica.
2006-08-26 05:50:53 · answer #3 · answered by Harris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋