"This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace. A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set"-- Title page verso

Hong Kong -- Macao -- Tokyo -- Honolulu -- Los Angeles and Las Vegas -- Chicago -- New York -- Hamburg -- Berlin -- Vienna -- Geneva -- Naples -- Monte Carlo

"Ian Fleming's world travels and interests ... lent authority to everything he wrote. In 1959, the Sunday Times commissioned Fleming to write a series of dispatches from the world's most beguiling locales. The result was Thrilling Cities, a masterpiece of well-observed travelogue that stands ably alongside the author's Bond canon. From Hong Kong to Honolulu, New York to Naples, he left the bright main streets for the back alleys, abandoning tourist sites in favor of underground haunts, and mingling with celebrities, gangsters and geishas. The result is a series of vivid snapshots of a mysterious, vanished world from a twentieth-century Western perspective"-- Page [4] of cover

"Originally published in Great Britain in 1963 by Jonathan Cape"-- Title page verso