Dedication

       ToMy Fellow Traveller

       Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

List of Illustrations

Introduction

1. Birth of a Traveller (1919)

2. The Baby as a Traveller

3. Rings Around the Tombs in SW13 (1923)

4. Travels in Harrods

5. Westward Ho! (1925)

6. A Walk in the Sun (1925)

7. Journeys Through Darkest Hammersmith (1928–36)

8. Lands and Peoples

       9. Mystery Tour (1927)

       10. Something in West One (1936–8)

       11. I Go to Sea (1938)

       12. Snakes and Ladders (1939–42)

       13. Love Among the Ruins (1942)

       14. A Trip to Italy (1942)

       15. Conducted Tours with the Third Reich (1944)

       16. Götterdämmerung (1944–5)

       17. Commercial Traveller (1946–54)

       18. Travels in My Imagination (1947)

       19. When Did You Last Cross the Oxus? (1956)

       20. The Most Unforgettable Character I Never Met (1958)

       21. A Visitor from Lhasa (1958)

       22. MG Buyer (1960–3)

       23. Down the Drain (1963)

       24. A Princely Shoot (1963)

       25. Lonely Islands (1964)

       26. New York (1965)

       27. A Walk on Broadway (1965)

       28. Lawrence’s Jordan (1967)

       29. Treetops, East Africa (1967)

       30. Orient Express (1969)

       31. The Pera Palace Hotel (1969)

       32. A Journey in the Wilderness (1971)

       33. Wimbledon to Italy by Bicycle (1971)

       34. Port-au-Prince (1972)

       35. Leaving The Observer (1973)

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       Also by the Author

       Plates

       Copyright

       About the Publisher