‘Smelling The Breezes: A Journey through the High Lebanon in 1957' by Ralph and Molly Izzard
Read Barnaby Rogerson in our latest newsletter on Ralph and Molly’s trek in 1957 across the Lebanese mountains with 4 children, 2 donkeys and Elias.
‘Ralph himself was one of three role models from which Ian Fleming created the fictional James Bond. If you have ever wondered what James Bond, having settled down with Miss Moneypenny, might have been like as a father, then you need look no further.
Such was the unusual stamp of the man who took his four young children off to walk the spine of the Lebanese mountains in 1957. Although his name is on the cover of Smelling the Breezes, it is mostly written by his wife. Smelling the Breezes was Molly’s first book and was published in 1959.'
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