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The traveller in his pram

My mother in our Napier car

My first unaccompanied travels

A mystery tour by charabanc

Storm in the Southern Ocean

Washing up in the port fo’c’sle

Wanda aged eighteen

On the run in Italy during the war

Myself aged twenty-three

Constantinople in the 1830s

Myself as fashion buyer, with Katharine Whitehorn (Desmond O’Neill)

On the island of Fara, Scapa Flow

Wanda descending the Ganges

Seen from the Istanbul Express, Bulgaria

Sheikh Ayid Awad Zalabin in Wadi Rumm

In the Pera Palace Hotel, Istanbul (Wanda Newby)

Myself relaxing at the Pera Palace Hotel

Bicycling from the Wash to Wimbledon (Chris Smith)

St Katharine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai

The favourite wife of Sheikh el Sheikh Abu Abdullah of the Umzeini Bedu (Wanda Newby)