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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I am a slow walker...It's strange how the simple things in life go on...Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession...Trouble shared is trouble halved...As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance...To throw oneself into...