Michael Korda
Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them — he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton — and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement.
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We are never defeated unless we give up on God...I think it's important for little girls growing up...Education is not preparation for life...Never go on trips with anyone you do not love...I wouldn't tell anyone to study werewolves...To other countries, I may go as a tourist...