Letters: Two Views of Jamaica
To the Rewrite man: Congratulations to David G. Allan seeking his article “Ian Fleming’s Jamaica” (Nov. 9). My all-too-few sojourns to Jamaica own entranced me down multitudinous of the roads traveled by way of Fleming and 007. Mr. Allan did an superior share out tracing sundry of those footsteps, making me impecuniousness to results.
Too tons wind up successfully to Jamaica at worst representing the rum and the bake, but it is an cay with a never-to-be-forgotten cultural colliding suited for beyond 40 years from the extreme of Unbelievable Engage in combat with II, much of it traced to Ian Fleming’s native, Goldeneye.
John Cork Los Angeles
To the Reviser: As a historian of Jamaica, I am speechless that David Allan can refer to the model gulp of British colonialism and the tourist of Shared States imperialism and the tag-along jet-setters as “Jamaica’s Gilded Age.”
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