 Cover of Birds of the West Indies Birds of the West Indies (ISBN 0618002103) is a book containing exhaustive coverage of the 400+ species of birds found in the Caribbean Sea, excluding the ABC Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago, which were considered part of South America. It was written by James Bond and first published in 1936 by the Academy of Natural Sciences as part of the International Series. It has been reprinted several times since then, including a September 1, 1999 edition from Houghton Mifflin and a March 4, 2002 edition from Collins. The book contains approximately 256 pages. Map of Central America and the Caribbean The Caribbean Sea is a tropical body of water adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and southeast of the Gulf of Mexico. ...
The ABC islands are Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao; the last two are in the Netherlands Antilles, all are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. ...
South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...
James Bond (January 4, 1900 – February 14, 1989) was a leading American ornithologist whose name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy James Bond. ...
See also: 1935 in literature, other events of 1936, 1937 in literature, list of years in literature. ...
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia was founded in 1812 to expand knowledge of the natural world. ...
September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ...
1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. ...
March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ...
2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The name Collins may refer to: // Publishers The Collins publishing company, now part of HarperCollins Places Fort Collins, Colorado Collins, Wisconsin People Ansel Collins, a Reggae singer*Carla Collins, an entertainer reporter for CFTO during the 1990s and was the star on an entertainment show Entertainment Now with Dan Moran...
James Bond
Birds of the West Indies is perhaps best known for its existence, rather than the material in it. The book's author, James Bond, was used by Ian Fleming for the name of his popular British secret agent, Commander James Bond. Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ...
Fleming, a keen bird watcher while living at his estate in Jamaica owned the book. He later explained that the author's name was "brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon, and yet very masculine - just what I needed." The book has since become a collector's item amongst Bond fans and was featured as a homage in the twentieth James Bond film, Die Another Day when Bond poses as an ornithologist while in Cuba. Die Another Day is the twentieth James Bond movie made by EON Productions and the fourth and final film to star Pierce Brosnan as Ian Flemings James Bond. ...
See also James Bond is best known from the EON Productions film series. ...
A number of real life inspirations have been suggested for James Bond, the sophisticated fictional character and British spy, created by Ian Fleming. ...
Ian Fleming Ian Lancaster Fleming (May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was an English author, best remembered for writing the James Bond series of novels as well as the childrens story, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. ...
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