At 07:49 PM 16/11/00 +1000, Andrew wrote:
I'm 40 yrs old. Like the venerable JAG, I don't always agree with what
Andrew Stafford writes. However, I think he makes a very salient point
when he implies that there is no "cool" birding character in popular
fiction/media.
Well, it's stretching a point, but James Bond is actually named after the
late curator of birds at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia,
author of "Birds of the West Indies". When Fleming was writing the first
Bond book he was living in Jamaica, had the field guide and wrote the real
Bond asking for permission to use his name (Bond's wife later wrote a book
about it, "How James Bond got his name". which includes a hilarious
parody by Kenneth Parkes combining the real and fictional Bonds (the
composite is, of course, a student of Parus major).
I met the real-life Bond at the 1966 IOC in Oxford. The last time I was in
Philadelphia, the staff at the information desk of the Museum did not even
know that the original James bond had once worked there.
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