List of Illustrations

1.  Joan as a baby, 1912–13 (private collection)

2.  Charles Kettlewell in Kamchatka photographed by Francis Guillemard, 1882 (© Gonville & Caius College, by permission of the Master and Fellows of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge)

3.  Exterior of Dumbleton Hall, c. 1910 (private collection)

4.  Dumbleton drawing room, c. 1910 (private collection)

5.  Sir Bolton and Lady Eyres Monsell on Heartsease, 1934 (private collection)

6.  Joan with her sister and cousins at Sandbanks in Dorset, c. 1917 (private collection)

7.  Joan with puppies, 1926 (private collection)

8.  Joan as debutante, 1930 (Olivia Stewart archive)

9.  Graham Eyres Monsell, c. 1930 (private collection)

10.  Joan skiing in Austria, 1933 (The National Library of Scotland)

11.  John Betjeman at Dumbleton photographed by Joan, 1933 (private collection)

12.  Brian Howard photographed by Joan (The National Library of Scotland)

13.  Eddie Gathorne-Hardy photographed by Alan Pryce-Jones, 1932 (Beinecke Library, Yale University)

14.  Cyril Connolly photographed by Joan, 1930s (The National Library of Scotland)

15.  Joan painted by John Banting, 1933 (private collection)

16.  Alan Pryce-Jones photographed by Horst, 1936 (Beinecke Library, Yale University)

17.  Billa Cresswell photographed by Joan, 1936 (private collection)

18.  Joan at the races, c. 1938 (private collection)

19.  Joan and John Rayner, c. 1938 (private collection)

20.  Guests at Tickerage Mill photographed by Joan, c. 1938 (private collection)

21.  John Rayner, Tom and Isabel Delmer, and Tom Driberg at Bradwell Lodge photographed by Joan, 1940 (private collection)

22.  Isabel Delmer at Bradwell Lodge photographed by Joan, 1940 (private collection)

23.  John Rayner at the Political Warfare Executive in the early 1940s (private collection)

24.  Letter from Joan in Madrid to John Rayner, 7 October 1943 (private collection)

25.  Bomb damage at Haberdashers’ Hall photographed by Joan, 1941–2 (The National Library of Scotland)

26.  Kurdish tribesmen photographed by Joan, May 1945 (The National Library of Scotland)

27.  A Kurdish dandy photographed by Joan, May 1945 (The National Library of Scotland)

28.  Joan in Kurdistan, May 1945 (The National Library of Scotland)

29.  Athens street scenes photographed by Joan, 1950s (The National Library of Scotland)

30.  Athens street scenes photographed by Joan, 1950s (The National Library of Scotland)

31.  Paddy and Xan Fielding in the 1940s (The National Library of Scotland)

32.  Joan in bed, late 1940s (Olivia Stewart archive)

33.  Paddy on a beach on Ithaca photographed by Joan, late 1940s (The National Library of Scotland)

34.  Paddy wearing a sunhat photographed by Joan, late 1940s (The National Library of Scotland)

35.  Fishermen at Kardamyli photographed by Joan, 1951 (The National Library of Scotland)

36.  Anastenaria fire-walkers photographed by Joan, 1950s (The National Library of Scotland)

37.  Niko and Barbara Ghika, John Craxton, and Paddy and Joan on the terrace of the Ghikas’ house on Hydra photographed by Roloff Beny, 1958 (Benaki Museum – Ghika Gallery, Photographic Archive, Athens)

38.  Paddy outside tent photographed by Joan, 1960s (© Executors of Joan Leigh Fermor/Olivia Stewart archive)

39.  Paddy and Joan on an island opposite Nauplia photographed by Janetta Parladé, November 1960 (private collection)

40.  Paddy and Joan on an island opposite Nauplia photographed by Janetta Parladé, November 1960 (private collection)

41.  Joan and Paddy’s wedding at Caxton Hall, 17 January 1968 (Evening Standard/Stringer/Getty Images)

42.  Janetta Parladé at Torre de Tramores, Malaga, photographed by Jaime Parladé, late 1960s

43.  House at Kardamyli photographed by Diana Casey, early 1970s (private collection)

44.  Graham Eyres Monsell, Diana Casey, Paddy and Joan at Kardamyli, early 1970s (private collection)

45.  Joan and Diana Casey, early 1970s (private collection)

46.  Joan and Paddy picnicking photographed by Diana Casey, early 1970s (private collection)

47.  Joan and Paddy at Kardamyli, 1970s (Olivia Stewart archive)

48.  Joan and donkey, 1970s (Olivia Stewart archive)

49.  Joan at Kardamyli, 1981 (Olivia Stewart archive)

50.  Xan and Magouche Fielding, late 1970s (private collection)

51.  The Mill House, Dumbleton, 2011 (private collection)

52.  Joan, late in life (Olivia Stewart archive)